tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4176769156825838190.post7431663414908505903..comments2022-04-11T01:28:17.873-07:00Comments on A Blog of Beasts!: Allegory, Realism, and The LarderAnimals in the Middle Ageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10809281152134119502noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4176769156825838190.post-1430077454332510522010-11-15T07:27:16.623-08:002010-11-15T07:27:16.623-08:00I like your reading of The Larder very much! I th...I like your reading of <i>The Larder</i> very much! I think you are right to take the NGA's description to task. Although it acknowledges the possibility of allegory, it is much too secularist in its reading of what that allegory might be. It is ironic how much of what is clearly Christian in the early modern tradition has been written out in succeeding centuries--including the deep theological underpinning of much modern science. Yet again, "realism" and "science" do not necessarily exclude the conviction that looking at nature is a way of looking towards the sublime and, therefore, God.<br /><br />RLFBAnimals in the Middle Ageshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10809281152134119502noreply@blogger.com