Animal Languages in the Middle Ages

<p>1 Introduction.- Part I Communicating Through Animals.- 2&nbsp;Becoming-Birds: The Destabilizing Use of Gendered Animal Imagery in&nbsp;Ancrene Wisse.- 3&nbsp;As faucon comen out of muwe”: Female Agency and the Language of Falconry.- 4&nbsp;Saints and Holy Beasts: Pious Animals in Early-Medieval Insular Saints’&nbsp;Vitae.- 5&nbsp;The Speech of Strangers: The Tale of the Andalusi Phoenix.-&nbsp;Part II Recovering Animal Languages.- 6&nbsp;Bark Like a Man: Performance, Identity, and Boundary in Old English Animal&nbsp;&nbsp;Voice Catalogues.- 7&nbsp;In Briddes Wise: Chaucer’s Avian Poetics.- 8&nbsp;Understanding Hawk-Latin: Animal Language and Universal Rhetoric.- 9&nbsp;"Dites le mei, si ferez bien": Fallen Language and Animal Communication in&nbsp;Marie de France's&nbsp;Bisclavret.-&nbsp;Part III Embodied Language and Interspecies Dependence.-&nbsp;10&nbsp;On Equine Language: Jordanus Rufus and Thirteenth-Century Communicative Horsemanship.- 11&nbsp;No Hoof, No Horse:&nbsp;Hoof Care, Veterinary Medicine and Cross-Species&nbsp;Communication in Late Medieval England.- 12&nbsp;Medieval Dog Whisperers: The Poetics of Rehabilitation.- 13&nbsp;Embodied Emotion as Animal Language in&nbsp;Le Chevalier au Lion.</p>