The description and symbolic value of the unicorn in French literature of the 12th and 13th centuries

The paper considers naturalist and symbolic traits attributed to the unicorn in French 12th and 13th century literature. The corpus encompasses the bestiaries comprised by Philippe de Thaon, Gervaise, Guillaume de Normandy, Pierre de Beauvais, Richard de Fournival and pseudo-Pierre de Beauveis, whic...

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Autor principal:	Marija Panić
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Lenguaje:	EN FR SR
Publicado:	University of Belgrade 2016
Materias:	unicorn allegory physiologous bestiary animal didactic literature Anthropology GN1-890
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b4870319a4904cf59736f81505e0cd102021-12-02T10:33:26ZThe description and symbolic value of the unicorn in French literature of the 12th and 13th centuries10.21301/eap.v10i2.90353-15892334-8801https://doaj.org/article/b4870319a4904cf59736f81505e0cd102016-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doaj.org/toc/0353-1589https://doaj.org/toc/2334-8801The paper considers naturalist and symbolic traits attributed to the unicorn in French 12th and 13th century literature. The corpus encompasses the bestiaries comprised by Philippe de Thaon, Gervaise, Guillaume de Normandy, Pierre de Beauvais, Richard de Fournival and pseudo-Pierre de Beauveis, which belong to the tradition of the Physiologoi, as well as other encyclopedic and other works which contain the bookish zoological and geographic knowledge of the middle ages: Mappemonde by Pierre de Beauvais, The letter of presbyter John, and the Mappemonde by Gossouin de Metz. In this corpus where the description of the animals comes mainly from the same written sources (from antiquity and late antiquity and the Bible), we consider how this nonexistent animal is described and to what extent a symbolic interpretation is present. Marija PanićUniversity of Belgradearticleunicornallegoryphysiologousbestiaryanimaldidactic literatureAnthropologyGN1-890ENFRSREtnoantropološki Problemi, Vol 10, Iss 2 (2016)
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spellingShingle	unicorn allegory physiologous bestiary animal didactic literature Anthropology GN1-890 Marija Panić The description and symbolic value of the unicorn in French literature of the 12th and 13th centuries
description	The paper considers naturalist and symbolic traits attributed to the unicorn in French 12th and 13th century literature. The corpus encompasses the bestiaries comprised by Philippe de Thaon, Gervaise, Guillaume de Normandy, Pierre de Beauvais, Richard de Fournival and pseudo-Pierre de Beauveis, which belong to the tradition of the Physiologoi, as well as other encyclopedic and other works which contain the bookish zoological and geographic knowledge of the middle ages: Mappemonde by Pierre de Beauvais, The letter of presbyter John, and the Mappemonde by Gossouin de Metz. In this corpus where the description of the animals comes mainly from the same written sources (from antiquity and late antiquity and the Bible), we consider how this nonexistent animal is described and to what extent a symbolic interpretation is present.
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title_short	The description and symbolic value of the unicorn in French literature of the 12th and 13th centuries
title_full	The description and symbolic value of the unicorn in French literature of the 12th and 13th centuries
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The description and symbolic value of the unicorn in French literature of the 12th and 13th centuries

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