Beasts, Humans, and Transhumans in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
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From shape-shifting Merlin to the homunculi of Paracelsus, the nine fascinating essays of this collection explore the contested boundaries between human and non-human animals, between the body and the spirit, and between the demonic and the divine. Drawing on recent work in animal studies, posthumanism, and transhumanism, these innovative articles show how contemporary debates about the nature and future of humanity have deep roots in the myths, literature, philosophy, and art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The authors of these essays demonstrate how classical stories of monsters and metamorphoses offered philosophers, artists, and poets a rich source for reflection on marriage, resurrection, and the passions of love. The ambiguous and shifting distinctions between human, animal, demon, and angel have long been contentious. Beasts can elevate humanity: for Renaissance courtiers, horsemanship defined nobility. But animals are also associated with the demonic, and medieval illuminators portrayed Satan with bestial features. Divided into three sections that examine metamorphoses, human-animal relations, and the demonic and monstrous, this volume raises intriguing questions about the ways humans have understood their kinship with animals, nature, and the supernatural. Front Matter (“Table of Contents”), p. i https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ASMAR-EB.5.121984 Free Access Introduction, p. vii J. Eugene Clay https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ASMAR-EB.120880 Part I. Metamorphoses Animal/Merlin/Demon, p. 3 Robert S. Sturges https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ASMAR-EB.120881 Metamorphosis and Metempsychosis in Thomas Bradwardine’s De causa Dei, p. 23 Edit Anna Lukacs https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ASMAR-EB.120882 The Birds of Love: Doves, Pigeons and Owls in Nicolas Brizard’s Metamorphoses Amoris (1556), p. 39 John Nassichuk https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ASMAR-EB.120883 Part II. Beasts and Humans Beastly Boars and Human Hunters in MS Bodley 764, p. 61 Susan Anderson https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ASMAR-EB.120884 Horsemanship and Libros de Jineta in Habsburg Spain, p. 79 Kathryn Renton https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ASMAR-EB.120885 Part III. Beyond Humanity: Demons and Monsters “If You Go Down to the Woods Today”: William Rufus and the Noonday Demon, p. 105 David Scott-Macnab https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ASMAR-EB.120886 Behold thy Beast of Hoof and Horn: Representations of the Devil in Illuminations of the Temptation of Christ, 1150-1400, p. 121 Amanda E. Downey https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ASMAR-EB.120887 A Monstrous Marriage: Grotesque Ornament in Late Renaissance ‘Cassoni’, p. 137 Rachel L. Chantos https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ASMAR-EB.120888 The Monsters of Paracelsus, p. 151 Thomas Willard https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ASMAR-EB.120889 Back Matter (“Notes on Contributors”), p. 167 https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ASMAR-EB.5.121985
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