Spiders Behaving Badly in the Middle English Physiologus, the Bestiaire Attributed to Pierre de Beauvais and Odo of Cheriton's Fables.

Two remarkably similar depictions of spiders survive in Middle English and French sources from the middle of the thirteenth century. Both of these vernacular versions of the Physiologus deviate so wildly from their sources when it comes to describing these creatures that their editors have declared...

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Published in:	Neophilologus Vol. 104; no. 4; pp. 567 - 584
Main Author:	Cavell, Megan
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Dec2020
Subjects:	Spiders Thirteenth century Violence Aristotle, 384-322 B.C. Multilingualism Hunting
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