medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> > I am looking for texts which compare in a favourable light saints, monks
> > or
> > recluses with wild animals.
> > Thank you for your help.
Joyce Salisbury, The Beast Within: Animals in the Middle Ages (Routledge, 1994)
has a chapter on "Animals as Human Exemplars" in which she mentions that in
c.1030 a cycle of frescoes was painted in the dining area of the monastery of
Fleury, for the edification of the monks, featuring fables accompanied by moralizing
inscriptions such as "bad consequences always ensue if one helps the wicked". She
gives no specific examples, but there is a reference to A. Goldschmidt, An Early
Manuscript of the Aesop Fables of Avianus (Princeton U.P., 1947), pp. 44-47.
Perhaps you might find something there.
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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