Animal Languages in the Middle Ages Representations of Interspecies
The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, A
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Animal Languages in the Middle Ages REPRESENTATIONS of INTERSPECIES COMMUNICATION Edited by Alison Langdon
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The New Middle Ages Series editor Bonnie Wheeler English & Medieval Studies Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX, USA
The New Middle Ages is a series dedicated to pluridisciplinary studies of medieval cultures, with particular emphasis on recuperating women’s history and on feminist and gender analyses. This peer-reviewed series includes both scholarly monographs and essay collections. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14239
Alison Langdon Editor
Animal Languages in the Middle Ages Representations of Interspecies Communication
Editor Alison Langdon Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, KY, USA
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Acknowledgements
As is always the case, a number of organizations and individuals helped bring this project to fruition. The Medieval Association of the Midwest sponsored my session on animal languages at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in 2015, where four of the chapters in this volume had their origins. The 2016 Sewanee Medieval Colloquium at the University of the South kindly allowed me to organize two sessions featuring additional chapters. Together these session
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