Talking Animals

by Jan M. Ziolkowski

• ISBN13: 9780812231618
• ISBN10: 0812231619
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2016-11-11
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Inspirations and Analogues	p. 15
Fables and Tales	p. 15
Christian Animal Symbolism	p. 32
Classical Poetry	p. 35
Beast Narrative and the Court of Charlemagne	p. 47
Alcuin and Other Carolingian Poets	p. 47
"The Sick Lion" and "The Sad Calf"	p. 61
Further Beyond Fable	p. 67
"The Nanny Goat"	p. 67
Sedulius Scottus's "The Ram"	p. 69
Walahfrid Strabo's Man and Eagle	p. 79
Mystical Poems with Talking Birds	p. 105
Toward Narrative Complexity	p. 110
Eugenius Vulgarius's "Comic Visions"	p. 110
Leo of Vercelli's "Meter"	p. 116
Conclusion	p. 128
Dramatic and Dialogic Beast Poems	p. 131
Beast Flytings	p. 135
Insect Debates	p. 139
Flytings in the Schools	p. 142
Animals in Place of People	p. 146
Animals in Popular Theater and Ritual	p. 147
Conclusion	p. 151
The Calf-Monk and Wolf-Monk in Performance	p. 153
Introduction to the Ecbasis Captivi	p. 153
The Prologue	p. 160
The Outer Story (Part 1)	p. 163
The Inner Story	p. 176
The Outer Story (Part 2)	p. 191
Conclusion	p. 193
Ysengrim, the Wolf-Monk with a Name	p. 198
"The Cock and Fox" and "The Wolf"	p. 198
The Ysengrimus and Its Author	p. 210
Monkish and Wolfish Rules	p. 213
The Liturgy Strikes Back	p. 219
Conclusion	p. 235
Appendices (Translations)	p. 241
Alcuin, "The Cock and Wolf"	p. 241
Alcuin, Letter 181	p. 242
Cuono of St. Nabor, "The Peacock and Owl"	p. 244
Egbert of Liege, "The Bear, Wolf, and Fox"	p. 245
Eugenius Vulgarius, "Comic Visions"	p. 246
Froumund of Tegernsee, Poem 19	p. 248
Leo of Vercelli, "Meter"	p. 249
Physiologus Latinus (Versio B)	p. 260
Sedulius Scottus, "The Ram"	p. 262
Theodulf, "The Battle of the Birds"	p. 265
Theodulf, "The Fox and Hen"	p. 268
Theodulf, "What Do the Swans Do?"	p. 269
Thierry of St. Trond, "Weep, Dogs"	p. 272
Walahfrid Strabo, "To Erluin"	p. 273
William of Blois, "The Quarrel of the Flea and Fly"	p. 274
"The Altercation of the Spider and Fly"	p. 278
"The Ass Brought before the Bishop"	p. 280
"The Cock and Fox"	p. 281
"The Flea"	p. 289
"Gout and the Flea"	p. 290
"The Hawk and Peacock"	p. 290
"The Lombard and Snail"	p. 292
"The Louse"	p. 293
"The Prose of the Ass"	p. 294
"The Sad Calf"	p. 295
"The Sick Lion"	p. 295
"The Swan Lament"	p. 297
"The Swan Sequence"	p. 298
"The Testament of the Ass"	p. 299
"The Testament of the Piglet"	p. 299
"The Wolf"	p. 301
"The Wrangle of the Dwarf and Hare"	p. 303
Bibliography	p. 305
Primary Sources	p. 305
Secondary Sources	p. 316
Index of Subjects and First Lines	p. 341
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