Bad Animals and Faithful Beasts in Bevis of Hampton.
Most medieval Europeans lived closely alongside animals in a way modern city-dwellers do not, and unsurprisingly the literature features animals in debate poems and fabliaux. Animals even receive their own literary subgenre, the bestiary. The popular Auchinleck Manuscript romance Bevis of Hampton (c...
| Publicado en: | Neophilologus Vol. 97; no. 3; pp. 581 - 590 |
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