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A Handbook of Animals in Old English Texts by Todd Preston is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Handbook of Animals in Old English Texts about?
A Handbook of Animals in Old English Texts is the definitive handbook for students, scholars, and observers of the non-human in early medieval England. In this interdisciplinary compendium to the animal inhabitants of medieval Britain, Preston documents each creature mentioned in the Old English literary textual canon and correlates its standard literary interpretation with relevant historical, archaeological, and ecological studies. Beyond its usefulness as a reference work, Preston's text challenges the reader to move beyond a literary analysis of the figural beast to one that leaves space for the actual animal.
Who reads A Handbook of Animals in Old English Texts?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Todd Preston
- Publisher
- Arc Humanities Press
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781641893107
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Literary Criticism, Science