Liam Lewis

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Animal Soundscapes in Anglo-Norman TextsHardcover, 25 January 2022

Animal Soundscapes in Anglo-Norman Texts
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Part of Series
Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages
Print Length
216 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer
Date Published
25 Jan 2022
ISBN-10
1843846225
ISBN-13
9781843846222

Description

A redefinition of the animal's relationship to sound and language in French texts from medieval England.

The barks, hoots and howls of animals and birds pierce through the experience of medieval texts. In captivating episodes of communication between species, a mandrake shrieks when uprooted from the ground, a saint preaches to the animals, and a cuckoo causes turmoil at the parliament of birds with his familiar call. This book considers a range of such episodes in Old French verse texts, including bestiaries, treatises on language, the Life of Saint Francis of Assisi and the Fables by Marie de France, aiming to reconceptualize and reinterpret animal soundscapes. It argues that they draw on sound to produce competing perspectives, forms of life, and linguistic subjectivities, suggesting that humans owe more to animal sounds than we are disposed to believe. Texts inviting readers to listen and learn animal noises, to seek spiritual consolation in the jargon of birds, or to identify with the speaking wolf, create the conditions for an assertion of human exceptionalism even as they simultaneously invite readers to question such forms of control. By asking what it means for an animal to cry, make noise, or speak in French, this book provides an important resource for theorizing sound and animality in multilingual medieval contexts, and for understanding the animal's role in the interpretation of the natural world.

Product Details

Author:
Liam Lewis
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
GB
Date Published:
25 January 2022
Dimensions:
23.88 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm
Genre:
Medieval (500-1453) Studies
ISBN-10:
1843846225
ISBN-13:
9781843846222
Language:
English
Location:
Woodbridge
Pages:
216
Weight:
430.91 gm

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