The art of memory and the bestiary

Author

Rowland, Beryl

Document type

Article (livre)

Language

English

Book title

Beasts and birds of the Middle Ages : the bestiary and its legacy

Author (monograph)

Clark, Willene B. (Editor, Collective Author); McMunn, Meradith T. (Editor, Collective Author)

Source

Beasts and birds of the Middle Ages : the bestiary and its legacy. 1989, p. 12-25

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia (usa)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

States that the bestiary's function was similar to that of the medieval sermon: it was to teach the Christian ethic in such a manner that would fix itself indelibly on the mind and, like the sermons of some English 14th c. preachers, its form and style appear to have been indebted to a technique of Greek and Roman rhetoricians. Concludes that words and images were to combine to fix doctrinal mysteries and moral precepts in the memory.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 300-1400 -- Pictorial arts -- Manuscript illumination
• Bestiaries
• Medieval
• Memory
• Manuscript illumination
• Homilies
• Comparison
• Rhetoric
• Antiquity [culture]
• Influence
• Christianity
• Ethics
• Language

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 300-1400 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Enluminure
• Bestiaire
• Moyen Age
• Mémoire
• Enluminure
• Homélie
• Comparaison
• Rhétorique
• Antiquité
• Influence
• Christianisme
• Ethique
• Langage

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19910401-00452782

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