What could the phoenix, elephant, and spider teach medieval people, and what can they teach us now about human – animal relationships? Medieval Bestiaries: New Approaches offers innovative insights on questions previously unasked about a most popular type of illuminated manuscript, whose animal pictures and stories continue to entertain and inspire.

Bringing together an impressive range of multi-disciplinary expertise, the authors provide fresh perspectives on previously unpublished or under-explored bestiary texts, images, methods of production, cross-literary influences, and moralized messaging. Most significantly, they move bestiaries out of their specialized scholarly corner into the wider world of animal-thinking across Christian, Jewish, and Islamic cultures, and stake a claim for animals as a central meeting-ground for medieval and modern sensibilities.

Debra Higgs Strickland, PhD (1993), Columbia University, is Professor of Medieval Art History at the University of Glasgow. Her many publications on historical representations of animals, non-humans, and Others include Saracens, Demons, & Jews: Making Monsters in Medieval Art (Princeton, 2003).

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Medieval Bestiaries. New Approaches, éd. Debra Higgs Strickland, Boston–Leyde, 2025 ; 1 vol., 388 p. (Reading Medieval Sources, 9). ISBN : 978-90-04-42969-7. prix : € 185,00.

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