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Bestiaries and Their Users in the Middle Ages
Bestiaries and Their Users in the Middle Ages Author:Ron Baxter Bestiaries were among the most popular of medieval books, often tediously and lavishly illustrated, but the conditions of their use have until now never been satisfactorily explained. Dr Baxter has undertaken extensive new research into a large corpus of bestiaries, applying modern narrative theory to their texts and images to reveal the message... more »s encoded in them -- messages which were systematically altered as bestiaries were expanded and restructured.« less