Medieval dogs /
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| Author / Creator: | Walker-Meikle, Kathleen. |
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| Imprint: | London : British Library, 2013, ©2013. |
| Description: | 89 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10485693 |
Table of Contents:
- Dogs of all kinds abound in medieval sources
- John Caius's On English Dogges (1570)
- The twelfth-century abbess Hildegard of Bingen
- A popular story in bestiaries
- The tradition that dogs stay with their master's corpse
- The early seventh-century scholar St Isidore of Seville
- The loyal dog is a popular heraldic beast
- Using the image of a dog
- Dogs in the Bible
- Dog names in the Middle Ages
- There were many legends about cynocephali
- St Roch, the patron-saint of plague
- The thirteenth-century preacher Stephen of Bourbon
- A thirteenth-century exemplary tale
- The twelfth-century writer Walter Map
- The late fourteenth-century author of the Goodman of Paris
- Fifteenth-century books of courtesy
- The fourteenth-century poet and scholar Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374)
- The fourteenth-century Dominican preacher John Bromyard
- Geoffroy de la Tour-Landry
- The thirteenth-century scholar Albertus Magnus
- Common diseases of dogs listed by Albertus Magnus
- The Master of Game
- If a dog could not keep down any food
- Rabies
- Apparition of mysterious black dogs
- Ghostly dogs
- Dog collars
- Dogs could sleep in kennels or baskets
- Monasteries and nunneries
- It was not always nuns
- Ordinances made at Eltham in 1526
- Astronomical manuscripts
- Guillaume Machaut's fourteenth-century The Judgement of the King of Behaigne
- Chaucer's The Book of the Duchess
- In the ninth century, St Edmund, King of East Anglia
- The popular herbal of Pseudo-Apuleius
- In Sextus Placitus's late antique book
- Beloved dog of Thierry, Abbot of St Thrond
- Hunting dogs
- The fifteenth-century Boke of St Albans
- Pseudo-Albertus Magnus's Book of Virtues of Herbs, Stones and Animals
- A treatise of medical and magical preparations from animals
- Further Reading
- Credits
