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Title Our dogs, our selves : dogs in Medieval and early modern art, literature, and society / edited by Laura D. Gelfand.

Publication Info. Boston : Brill, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Art and material culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe ; volume 6
Art and material culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe ; v. 6.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Literal and Literary Dogs -- Signs, Symbols and Dogs -- Love and Dogs -- Death and Dogs -- Good Dogs and Bad Dogs.
Summary The 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.
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Subject Dogs in art.
Dogs in art.
Arts, European -- Themes, motives.
Arts, European -- Themes, motives.
Arts, European.
Animals and civilization -- Europe.
Animals and civilization.
Europe.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Gelfand, Laura Deborah, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Our dogs, our selves. Boston : Brill, 2016 9789004269163 (DLC) 2016031145
ISBN 9789004328617 (electronic book)
9004328610 (electronic book)
9789004269163 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9004269169