Bestiary
A bestiary is a book written with the Moyen-âge which gathers short descriptions of real and imaginary animals, as well as stones and plants, and accompanies them by an explanation. These works reflected the conviction that the world is the book in which God wrote, and that all can find an explanation and correspondences.
Thus the Pélican was a representation of the Christ: indeed, it was believed that this bird opened the belly to make revive its small by its blood. One also found the animals of the bestiary in the field of the sculpture: the churches were (and are still) full with sculptures of animals of which we always do not include/understand the symbolic system.
The bestiaries knew their greater popularity in England and France with 12th and 13th centuries. They were generally compilations of extracts of the two principal works on the matter: the Physiologus or Physiologos (a short text in worms, which one generally goes back from the 2nd century and the Étymologies from Isidore to Seville (of the beginning of the 7th century).
Let us note also astonishing it bestiary embroidered at the 11th century, and which we can admire on the planks high and low which border the Tapisserie of Bayeux.
See too
Internal bonds
- Physiologus and the filiation of the Latin bestiaries.
External bonds
- a new edition of the '' Bestiaire '' of Philippe de Thaon
- Outline of bearing bestiary on the fantastic creatures
- Metamorphosis and fantastic bestiary with the Middle Ages by Laurence Harf-Lancner.
- a contemporary bestiary, public garden Henry Darcy in 2004 in Dijon
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