Images in English bestiaries of the 12th and 13th centuries

Author(s)

Muriel Araujo Lima Garcia

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2015-08-18

Examining board members

Maria Cristina Correia Leandro Pereira; Carlos Roberto Figueiredo Nogueira; Maria Eurydice de Barros Ribeiro

• Advisor: Maria Cristina Correia Leandro Pereira

Abstract

Bestiaries are richly illustrated manuscripts, however, there are few studies devoted specifically to its images. As it is, the purpose of this research is to investigate the role played by the images in three Latin bestiaries produced in England during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Our hypothesis is that these images do not serve a merely illustrative or mnemonic function, as they rarely reference the textual moralizations and exegeses. The objective of this work is to analyze the images and their functions in the manuscripts bearing in mind that the logic of figurative thought is not the same as the texts. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 12/12588-0 - Figurative systems in 12th and 13th century English bestiaries
• Grantee: Muriel Araujo Lima Garcia
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master