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The Regional Impact On Medieval Text And Image: Exploring Representations Of Anti-Semitism In English And Northern French Medieval Bestiaries, Sarah Elizabeth Spencer
The Regional Impact On Medieval Text And Image: Exploring Representations Of Anti-Semitism In English And Northern French Medieval Bestiaries, Sarah Elizabeth Spencer
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This thesis endeavors to explain the variations in representations of anti-Semitism between medieval bestiaries. Medieval bestiaries, compilations concerning animals and their moralized characteristics, were a type of medieval literature commonly produced throughout Western Europe.[1] In order to make a more concrete analysis, this study focuses on two particular medieval bestiaries comparable in both date and style – The Aberdeen Bestiary from England and Le Bestiaire from northern France. Both date from the early 13th century and are classified as Second-family moralizing bestiaries, that is, they both derive from the Latin text Physiologus.[2]
The analysis of these …