Bestiaries

On the walls you may have noticed the Ane qui vielle, -- the ass playing the lyre; and on all the old churches you can see "bestiaries," as they were called, of fabulous animals, symbolic or not; but the symbolism is as simple as the realism of the oxen at Laon. ❋ Henry Adams (1878)

With "Fleurs d'exces" Flowers of excess, she has gone further to create unique works that recall the jeweled obsessions of times past, such as the mechanical nightingale of Hans Christian Andersen's children's tale, Faberge eggs, and the fabulous bestiaries of animals real and mythic. ❋ Evelyne Politanoff (2011)

There are Books of Hours painted on vellum, intricate hymnals, Psalters, antiphonals, breviaries, bestiaries, herbals, and luminous Bibles for monasteries and kings. ❋ Mira Bartók (2011)

A couple of weeks ago, while reading a paper* on snail illustrations in old publications, I noticed a citation to a 2001 book called Beasts and bestiaries. ❋ AYDIN (2009)

Alongside bestiaries, prayer books and studies of humanist thought, there are plenty of "how tos" for the budding monarch, including how to be a good king check out Solomon, David, Caesar and Alexander and how to stay hygienic and healthy. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But it also boasted the unities of time, place, and action; it aspired to at least partial coherence; it had some shape, some pattern, with its echelons, its bestiaries. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The bestiaries and the shady streams of the place will not go unnoticed by EnèIoh who is of the place. ❋ Unknown (2010)

- Like the Salamander of medieval bestiaries this two in one creature is generally racist but can be a “victim” when discussing education AKA study of Nazi Germany ❋ Newmania (2008)

The house was tiled as well, its entire surface, even the roof, covered with an intricate mosaic of handmade tile, until it resembled some giant fantastic creature from one of Kellen's bestiaries-a manticore or a basilisk, perhaps, or even a sleeping dragon. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

She said, “I have a great fondness for the animals of the zodiac” and used mythological creatures from astronomical charts and medieval bestiaries. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Valentina knelt to collect the pile she had tripped over, a little island of bestiaries and herbals. ❋ AUDREY NIFFENEGGER (2009)

I surmise that the depictions of human-animal hybrids featured in bestiaries so popular in the Middle Ages only second in popularity to the Bible, is derived from the fear that human-animal copulation would result in offspring. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It is within the context of these bestiaries that the work of Piccinini should be viewed. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Medieval Academy does sponsor sessions at Kalamazoo, and some big medieval names do show up--this year's congress featured a stellar plenary address on medieval bestiaries by Christopher de Hamel, manuscript librarian at Cambridge University's Corpus Christi College, as well as appearances by the veteran Chaucerian scholar Derek Pearsall of the University of York, well-known medieval historians Brenda Bolton and Barbara Hanawalt, and Seth Lerer, dean of postmodernist medievalism at Stanford. ❋ Papabear (2008)