Bestiaries and Their Users in the Middle Ages

Baxter, Ron

ISBN 10: 0750918535 / ISBN 13: 9780750918534

Published by Sutton Publishing / Courtauld Institute, 1998

About this Item

VG First Edition, first printing in a VG unclipped DJ, inscribed and signed by the author to the fep.1998. xiv, 242pp. B&W and colour illustrations. "Challenging the prevailing view that they are keys to the iconography of contemporary sculpture or early attempts at zoology, art historian Baxter takes a completely fresh approach to the collections of illustrations depicting and texts describing real and mythical animals and plants.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bestiaries and Their Users in the Middle Ages
• Publisher: Sutton Publishing / Courtauld Institute
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750918535
• ISBN 13: 9780750918534
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Challenging the prevailing view that they are keys to the iconography of contemporary sculpture or early attempts at zoology, art historian Baxter takes a completely fresh approach to the collections of illustrations depicting and texts describing real and mythical animals and plants. He applies modern narrative theory to the texts and images to find messages encoded in them, and argues that those messages were systematically altered as the Bestiaries were expanded and restructured. Distributed in the US by Books International. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About the Author

Ronald Baxter is a lecturer in medieval art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, and honorary editor of the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in the British Isles.