Cover Image
QR Code

Talking Wolves, Golden Fish, and Lion Sex: The Alterations to Gerald of Wales’s Topographia Hibernica as Evidence of Audience Disbelief?

In his Topographia Hibernica, Gerald of Wales describes many Irish wonders, including talking werewolves, animal–human hybrids, and bestiality. Version III, written c. 1189–93 (after a recitation in Oxford in 1188/9), defends the truth of these particular wonders. Gerald’s reactive revisions e...

Full description

Published in:Parergon Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 27 - 54
Main Author: Brewer, Keagan
Format: Article
Published: Australian & New Zealand Association for Medieval & Early Modern Studies 2020
Subjects:
Werewolves
Fishes
Expugnatio Hibernica (Book)
William, de Montibus ca. 1140-1213
Bestiality
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
fields @attributes:
  recordID: 1
pdfLink:
plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=144289224&site=ehost-live
header:
  @attributes:
    shortDbName: hlh
    uiTerm: 144289224
    longDbName: Humanities International Complete
    uiTag: AN
  controlInfo:
    bkinfo:
    jinfo:
      jid:
        03136221
        65HN
      jtl: Parergon
      issn: 03136221
      maglogo: N
    pubinfo:
      dt: 2020
      vid: 37
      iid: 1
      pid: 43679
      pub: Australian & New Zealand Association for Medieval & Early Modern Studies
    artinfo:
      ui:
        144289224
        10.1353/pgn.2020.0057
      ppf: 27
      ppct: 27
      formats:
        fmt:
          @attributes:
            type: P
            size: 5.7MB
      tig:
        atl: Talking Wolves, Golden Fish, and Lion Sex: The Alterations to Gerald of Wales’s Topographia Hibernica as Evidence of Audience Disbelief?
      aug:
        au: Brewer, Keagan
        affil: University of Sydney.
      su:
        Werewolves
        Fishes
        Expugnatio Hibernica (Book)
        William, de Montibus ca. 1140-1213
        Bestiality
      sug:
        subj:
          Werewolves
          Fishes
          Expugnatio Hibernica (Book)
          William, de Montibus ca. 1140-1213
          Bestiality
      ab: In his Topographia Hibernica, Gerald of Wales describes many Irish wonders, including talking werewolves, animal–human hybrids, and bestiality. Version III, written c. 1189–93 (after a recitation in Oxford in 1188/9), defends the truth of these particular wonders. Gerald’s reactive revisions endorse the reality of the unnamed critic he attacks in the Expugnatio Hibernica (first written in 1189), whose objections seem to concern hexameral categories. The Oxford recitation of 1188/9 was probably where the critic raised these objections. A later critic, William de Montibus, bemoaned Gerald’s consideration of bestiality as a legitimate object of ethnological discourse.
      pubtype: Academic Journal
      doctype: Article
      src: R
    language: English
    refInfo:
    copyright:
      @attributes:
        flag: Y
      custom: Copyright of Parergon is the property of Australian & New Zealand Association for Medieval & Early Modern Studies and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use.
      item: Parergon
      holder: Australian & New Zealand Association for Medieval & Early Modern Studies
      dt:
        @attributes:
          year: 2020
    holdings:
      @attributes:
        islocal: N