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David Salter, Holy and Noble Beasts: Encounters with Animals in Medieval Literature.(Book Review)

Publication: Medium Aevum

Publication Date: 22-SEP-02

Author: Squires, Ann
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COPYRIGHT 2002 Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature

(Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2001), vii + 168 pp.; 2 plates. ISBN 0-85991-624-3. 35.00 [pounds sterling].

David Salter examines the function and characterization of animals in three groups of texts seen as having overlapping features: the saints' lives of Jerome and Francis; the romances of St Eustace, Sir Isumbras, Sir Gowther, Octavian, and Sir Orfeo (which move from the clearly hagiographic to the...

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