tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4176769156825838190.post6658464574036542612..comments2022-04-11T01:28:17.873-07:00Comments on A Blog of Beasts!: Basil, Beasts, and the Contemplation of NatureAnimals in the Middle Ageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10809281152134119502noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4176769156825838190.post-7707872406428840072010-12-06T12:31:34.755-08:002010-12-06T12:31:34.755-08:00I appreciated very much your efforts throughout th...I appreciated very much your efforts throughout the quarter to help us see how the authors in the medieval Christian tradition thought about nature not just as a sign, but as actually participating in divine truths (as you suggest in n. 4). Where do you see yourself in relationship to this tradition? I ask because one of the things that has come up in certain modern discussions of animals (as I've mentioned in class) is the insistence that the Western tradition does not give a place for thinking about nature spiritually, as it were. In part, as I am sure everyone in the class is now well aware, this insistence depends upon an active forgetting of the older, pre-modern tradition of seeing animals, but if we recover that tradition through our scholarship, what then do we do with it? Is it possible, if not to reenchant the world, then at the very least to reconnect it with a vision of the divine that allows animals a place in our self-conceptualization that is both sacred and scientific? If this is even the best way to phrase the question, which I am not entirely sure that it is.<br /><br />RLFBAnimals in the Middle Ageshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10809281152134119502noreply@blogger.com