Directory of Middle Ages Resources

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Bestiaries from the middle ages were books written about animals and beasts of the time either real or imaginary and often containing a moral message. Many of these were Christian texts, referencing though symbolism connections between Christianity and moralistic beliefs. Some of these also included plants and minerals.

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Resources in This Category

• Bestiary Creatures

  http://otherworlddiner.blogspot.com/2007/10/bestiary-creatures.html
  Summaries for the bestiary and the creatures they described.

• Bibliothèque nationale de France: Medieval Bestiary

  http://expositions.bnf.fr/bestiaire/expo/
  Online museum exhibition featuring the Christian and other influences in bestiaries of history.

• Catholic Encyclopedia: Bestiaries

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02529b.htm
  Summary of these books, Christian symbolism and art, similar compilations and international references.

• The Aberdeen Bestiary

  http://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/
  Twelfth century encyclopedia of the natural world with digitized images of the books pages and translations from the original Latin; from the University of Aberdeen.

• The Medieval Bestiary

  http://www.bestiary.ca/
  Repository of information on animals in the Middle Ages, their legends, meaning and sources of the lore surrounding both imaginary and real animals, plants and stones; history of bestiaries.

• Wikipedia: List of Medieval Bestiaries

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medieval_bestiaries
  Encyclopedic entry with a list of these books from this time period.

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