Animals and Words: Talking about Animals – Talking with Animals – Talking Animals
Adam naming the animals of the world, from the Peterborough Bestiary (MS 53, f. 195v)
New Animaliter colloquium (May, 26-27, 2014) :
The Programme is online (PDF) : http://www.encyclopaedia-animalium.germanistik.uni-mainz.de/Tierlexikon%20Textdateien/Tagungsprogramm%20Tier%20und%20Wort.pdf
Topic and themes
- Talking about Animals: How do medieval authors describe and name animals?
This comprises problems of terminology and classification, but also the analysis of poetic elements used when describing animals, such as epithets or proper names of animals, etc. - Talking with Animals: Who talks with what kind of animal?
The focus in this section is on the partially verbal and partially non-verbal communication between humans and animals, such as found in the medieval epic, and also in texts that look at the daily interaction between the two. - Talking Animals: How, what and when do animals talk?
The central texts for this topic are not so much animal-fables, but other works featuring animals that communicate or talk with humans.
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Contact
Andrea Rapp et Sabine Obermaier
Prof. Dr. Sabine Obermaier
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
FB 05 – Deutsches Institut
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OpenEdition suggests that you cite this post as follows:
MAD (February 25, 2014). Animals and Words: Talking about Animals – Talking with Animals – Talking Animals. Medieval Animal Data-Network. Retrieved December 13, 2024 from https://doi.org/10.58079/r5f4
