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Book SynopsisThe ubiquity of references to dogs in medieval and early modern texts and images must at some level reflect their actual presence in those worlds, yet scholarly consideration of this material is rare and scattered across diverse sources. This volume addresses that gap, bringing together fifteen essays that examine the appearance, meaning, and significance of dogs in painting, sculpture, manuscripts, literature, and legal records of the period, reaching beyond Europe to include cultural material from medieval Japan and Islam. While primarily art historical in focus, the authors approach the subject from a range of disciplines and with varying methodology that ultimately reveals as much about dogs as about the societies in which they lived. Contributors are Kathleen Ashley, Jane Carroll, Emily Cockayne, John Block Friedman, Karen M. Gerhart, Laura D. Gelfand, Craig A. Gibson, Walter S. Gibson, Nathan Hofer, Jane C. Long, Judith W. Mann, Sophie Oosterwijk, Elizabeth Carson Pastan, Donna L. Sadler, Alexa Sand, and Janet Snyder.
Trade Review"Indeed, there is much to admire in this volume, including the passionate position the authors appear to take in relation to their subject matter." Pia F. Cuneo, University of Arizona, in Renaissance Quarterly 71, no. 1 (Spring 2018): 259-261.
Table of ContentsContents Note to the Reader ix Acknowledgments x List of Figures xii List of Contributors xviii Abstracts xxv Introduction: Our Dogs, Our Selves 1 Laura D. Gelfand Part 1 Literal and Literary Dogs 1 In Praise of Dogs: An Encomium Theme from Classical Greece to Renaissance Italy 19 Craig A. Gibson 2 Who Did Let the Dogs Out?—Nuisance Dogs in Late-Medieval and Early Modern England 41 Emily Cockayne 3 Wolf Cubs, the Butchers, and the Beaune Town Council 68 Kathleen Ashley 4 Dogs in Medieval Egyptian Sufiji Literature 78 Nathan Hofer Part 2 Signs, Symbols and Dogs 5 Fables, Bestiaries, and the Bayeux Embroidery: Man’s Best Friend Meets the “Animal Turn” 97 Elizabeth Carson Pastan 6 Federico Barocci’s Faithful Fidos: A Study in the Efffijicacy of Counter- Reformation Imagery 127 Judith W. Mann Part 3 Love and Dogs 7 And Your Little Dog, Too: Michal’s Lapdog and the Romance of the Old Testament 165 Alexa Sand 8 The Commedia of Joachim and Anna at the Scrovegni Chapel 187 Jane C. Long 9 Die Jagd nach der Treue, or When Desire Met Devotion 218 Jane Carroll Part 4 Death and Dogs 10 From Biblical Beast to Faithful Friend: A Short Note on the Iconography of Footrests on Tomb Monuments 243 Sophie Oosterwijk 11 The Canine Domain: At the Feet of Royal Tomb Efffijigies in Saint-Denis 261 Donna L. Sadler 12 Eternal Devotion: The Stone Canine Companions of Gothic Castile y León 279 Janet Snyder Part 5 Good Dogs and Bad Dogs 13 Medieval Scavengers: Dogs in Japanese Handscrolls 303 Karen M. Gerhart 14 Dogs in the Identity Formation and Moral Teaching Offfered in Some Fifteenth-Century Flemish Manuscript Miniatures 325 John Block Friedman 15 Metaphorical Dogs in the Later Middle Ages: The Dogs of God and the Hounds of Hell 363 Walter S. Gibson Bibliography 387 Index 418
