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Introducing the Medieval Ass
Engelsk
Bogcover for Introducing the Medieval Ass af Kathryn L. Smithies, 9781786836229
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Engelsk
Sider:
128
ISBN-13:
9781786836229
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
178683622X
Udg. Dato:
1 sep 2020
Størrelse i cm:
13,5 x 19,7 x 1,9
Oplagsdato:
1 sep 2020
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Introducing the Medieval Ass

Engelsk
Paperback 2020
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Introducing the Medieval Ass presents a lucid, accessible, and comprehensive picture of the enormous socioeconomic and cultural significance of the ass, or donkey, in the Middle Ages and beyond. In medieval times, the ass was a vital, utilitarian beast of burden, rather like ubiquitous white delivery vans today. At the same time, however, the ass had a rich, paradoxical reputation. Its hard work was praised but its obstinacy condemned. It exemplified the good Christian, humbly bearing Christ to Jerusalem, but also represented sloth, a mortal sin. It had a potent sexual reputation—in one literary work, an ass had sex with a woman—even as it was simultaneously linked to sterility. Over time, the ass also became synonymous with human idiocy, a comic figure representing foolish peasants, students too dull to learn, and their asinine teachers. This trope of foolishness was so prevalent that by the eighteenth century the word “ass” began to be replaced by “donkey.” Introducing the Medieval Ass offers a wide-ranging account of the importance, and often surprising cultural prevalence, of this common domesticated animal.
 
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
128
ISBN-13:
9781786836229
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
178683622X
Udg. Dato:
1 sep 2020
Størrelse i cm:
13,5 x 19,7 x 1,9
Oplagsdato:
1 sep 2020
Forfatter(e):
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