Format:
1 Online-Ressource (173 Seiten)
ISBN:
9789004538405
,
9004538402
Series Statement:
Nature, culture and literature volume 18
Content:
Equine Medicine and Popular Romance in Late Medieval England explores a seldom-studied trove of English veterinary manuals, illuminating how the daily care of horses they describe reshapes our understanding of equine representation in the popular romance of late medieval England. A saint removes a horse's leg the more easily to shoe him; a wild horse transforms spur wounds into the self-healing practice of bleeding; a messenger calculates time through his horse's body. Such are the rich and conflicted visions of horse/human connection in the period. Exploring this imagined relation, Francine McGregor reveals a cultural undercurrent in which medieval England is so reliant on equine bodies that human anxieties, desires, and very orientation in daily life are often figured through them. This book illuminates the complex and contradictory yearnings shaping medieval perceptions of the horse, the self, and the identities born of their affinity
Note:
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004501256
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe McGregor, Francine Equine medicine and popular romance in late medieval England Leiden : Brill, 2023 ISBN 9789004501256
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004538405
