[Book review]

Author

Clark, Willene B.

Document type

Compte rendu de livre

Language

English

Source

Speculum. 1999, Num. 2, Vol. 74, p. 424-426

ISSN

0038-7134

Abstract (en)

The reviewer writes "in the first two of 15 chapters the author surveys the development of medieval bestiaries and explains the manner in which she uses semiotic analysis in her study of their texts and illustrations. Then, drawing on 28 [English] bestiary manuscripts, she devotes each of 12 chapters to the semiology of a single bestiary animal. In the final chapter she proposes patrons and audiences for the book of beasts, based on her analyses and the historical contexts she draws".

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 300-1400 -- Pictorial arts -- Manuscript illumination -- United Kingdom
• Medieval
• Manuscript illumination
• Bestiaries
• Iconography
• Animals
• Great Britain
• Semiotics

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 300-1400 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Enluminure -- Royaume-Uni
• Moyen Age
• Enluminure
• Bestiaire
• Iconographie
• Animal
• Grande-Bretagne
• Sémiotique

Review of

19990701-00207603

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19990701-00207604

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