Publication: What’s in a Noun? A Short Caveat Regarding the Difficulties of Identifying Medieval Animals in Texts
What’s in a Noun? A Short Caveat Regarding the Difficulties of Identifying Medieval Animals in Texts
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Trachsler, R. (2021). What’s in a Noun? A Short Caveat Regarding the Difficulties of Identifying Medieval Animals in Texts. In L. Bartosiewicz & A. M. Choyke (Eds.), Medieval Animals on the Move : Between Body and Mind (pp. 151–166). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63888-7_8
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One of the major problems encountered in the analysis of medieval texts mentioning animals is that we sometimes just do not know what “modern” animal they actually refer to. The observation applies not only to imaginary creatures, fantastic beasts such as the siren, the centaur, or the dragon, but to numerous animals that are perfectly identifiable today. Medieval authors can use the name we are familiar with to refer to a different animal or describe an animal in a way that is at odds with present-day concepts, so that we sometimes w
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Trachsler, R. (2021). What’s in a Noun? A Short Caveat Regarding the Difficulties of Identifying Medieval Animals in Texts. In L. Bartosiewicz & A. M. Choyke (Eds.), Medieval Animals on the Move : Between Body and Mind (pp. 151–166). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63888-7_8