tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4176769156825838190.post7907232437191131995..comments2022-04-11T01:28:17.873-07:00Comments on A Blog of Beasts!: (For Fun) Eighteenth Century Theatre and BestiariesAnimals in the Middle Ageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10809281152134119502noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4176769156825838190.post-54595732964726201972010-12-06T09:39:00.124-08:002010-12-06T09:39:00.124-08:00I, too, have had the experience of noticing animal...I, too, have had the experience of noticing animals in places that I had not before: almost everything I read at the moment seems to have animal referents and/or imagery. How far into the present does this tradition persist? It seems certain, from what you say of Gozzi, that he was playing off the kind of imagery that we find in the bestiaries. Does this mean he had read the bestiary or that doves and crows simply still carried these referents (to goodness, to carrying messages)? Doves we can see the story of Noah, but I can't think of particular Scriptural images of crows (help!). Which makes me wonder, reflecting on your post, how much the imagery of any particular animal depends upon that animal (doves make pleasant noises, crows don't) and how much on the persistence of the tradition. A good test for both the ways in which animals come to signify and for the ways in which story-telling traditions are reinvented over time.<br /><br />RLFBAnimals in the Middle Ageshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10809281152134119502noreply@blogger.com