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i Our Dogs, Our Selves © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2016 | doi 10.1163/9789004328617_001 ii Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe Edited by Sarah Blick Laura D. Gelfand VOLUME 6 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/amce iii Our Dogs, Our Selves Dogs in Medieval and Early Modern Art, Literature, and Society Edited by Laura D. Gelfand LEIDEN | BOSTON iv Cover illustration: Detail of Jean Hey, Nativity with Cardinal Jean Rolin (Musée Rolin, Autun, France. 1480). Photo: Alfredo Dagli Orti/The Art Archive at Art Resource, NY. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Gelfand, Laura Deborah, editor. Title: Our dogs, our selves : dogs in Medieval and early modern art, literature, and society / Edited by Laura D. Gelfand. Description: Boston : Brill, 2016. | Series: Art and material culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe ; Volume 6 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016031145 (print) | LCCN 2016036376 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004269163 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9789004328617 (E-book) Subjects: LCSH: Dogs in art. | Arts, European--Themes, motives. | Animals and civilization--Europe. Classification: LCC NX650.D63 O97 2016 (print) | LCC NX650.D63 (ebook) | DDC 700/.462977209--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016031145 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface. issn 2212-4187 isbn 978-90-04-26916-3 (hardback) isbn 978-90-04-32861-7 (e-book) Copyright 2016 by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi and Hotei Publishing. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill nv provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, ma 01923, usa. Fees are subject to change. This book is printed on acid-free paper and produced in a sustainable manner. ContentCsontents v Contents Note to the Reader ix Acknowledgments x List of Figures xii List of Contributors xviii Abstracts xxv Introduction: Our Dogs, Our Selves 1 Laura D. Gelfand Part 1 Literal and Literary Dogs 1 In Praise of Dogs: An Encomium Theme from Classical Greece to Renaissance Italy 19 Craig A. Gibson 2 Who Did Let the Dogs Out?—Nuisance Dogs in Late-Medieval and Early Modern England 41 Emily Cockayne 3 Wolf Cubs, the Butchers, and the Beaune Town Council 68 Kathleen Ashley 4 Dogs in Medieval Egyptian Sufi Literature 78 Nathan Hofer Part 2 Signs, Symbols and Dogs 5 Fables, Bestiaries, and the Bayeux Embroidery: Man’s Best Friend Meets the “Animal Turn” 97 Elizabeth Carson Pastan 6 Federico Barocci’s Faithful Fidos: A Study in the Efficacy of Counter- Reformation Imagery 127 Judith W. Mann vi Contents Part 3 Love and Dogs 7 And Your Little Dog, Too: Michal’s Lapdog and the Romance of the Old Testament 165 Alexa Sand 8 The Commedia of Joachim and Anna at the Scrovegni Chapel 187 Jane C. Long 9 Die Jagd nach der Treue, or When Desire Met Devotion 218 Jane Carroll Part 4 Death and Dogs 10 From Biblical Beast to Faithful Friend: A Short Note on the Iconography of Footrests on Tomb Monuments 243 Sophie Oosterwijk 11 The Canine Domain: At the Feet of Royal Tomb Effigies in Saint-Denis 261 Donna L. Sadler 12 Eternal Devotion: The Stone Canine Companions of Gothic Castile y León 279 Janet Snyder Part 5 Good Dogs and Bad Dogs 13 Medieval Scavengers: Dogs in Japanese Handscrolls 303 Karen M. Gerhart 14 Dogs in the Identity Formation and Moral Teaching Offered in Some Fifteenth-Century Flemish Manuscript Miniatures 325 John Block Friedman Contents vii 15 Metaphorical Dogs in the Later Middle Ages: The Dogs of God and the Hounds of Hell 363 Walter S. Gibson Bibliography 387 Index 418 Contents Contents v viii Contents Acknowledgments ix List of Figures xi List of Contributors xvii Abstracts xxiv Notes to the Reader xxxv Introduction: Our Dogs, Our Selves 1 Laura D. Gelfand Part 1 Literal and Literary Dogs Chapter 1 In Praise of Dogs: An Encomium Theme from Classical Greece to Renaissance Italy 19 Craig A. Gibson Chapter 2 Who Did Let the Dogs Out?—Nuisance Dogs in Late-Medieval and Early Modern England 41 Emily Cockayn* Chapter 3 Wolf Cubs, the Butchers, and the Beaune Town Council 68 Kathleen Ashley Chapter 4 Dogs in Medieval Egyptian Sufi Literature 78 Nathan Hofer Part 2 Signs, Symbols and Dogs Chapter 5 Fables, Bestiaries, and the Bayeux Embroidery: Man’s Best Friend Meets the “Animal Turn” 97 Elizabeth Carson Pastan Chapter 6 Federico Barocci’s Faithful Fidos: A Study in the Efficacy of Counter-Reformation Imagery 127 Judith W. Mann Part 3 Love and Dogs Chapter 7 And Your Little Dog, Too: Michal’s Lapdog and the Romance of the Old Testament 165 Alexa Sand Chapter 8 The Commedia of Joachim and Anna at the Scrovegni Chapel 187 Jane C. Long Chapter 9 Die Jagd nach der Treue, or When Desire Met Devotion 218 Jane Carroll Part 4 Death and Dogs Chapter 10 From Biblical Beast to Faithful Friend: A Short Note on the Iconography of Footrests on Tomb Monuments 243 Sophie Oosterwijk Chapter 11 The Canine Domain: At the Feet of Royal Tomb Effigies in Saint-Denis 261 Donna L. Sadler Chapter 12 Eternal Devotion: The Stone Canine Companions of Gothic Castile y León 279 Janet Snyder Part 5 Good Dogs and Bad Dogs Chapter 13 Medieval Scavengers: Dogs in Japanese Handscrolls 303 Karen M. Gerhart Chapter 14 Dogs in the Identity Formation and Moral Teaching Offered in Some Fifteenth-Century Flemish Manuscript Miniatures 325 John Block Friedman Chapter 15 Metaphorical Dogs in the Later Middle Ages: The Dogs of God and the Hounds of Hell 363 Walter S. Gibson Bibliography 387 Index 418 Note toN tohtee Rse taod etrhe Reader ix Note to the Reader Kindly note that although Laura D. Gelfand is one of the managing editors of the AMCE series she was NOT part of the decision-making/review process with regard to this volume. x Acknowledgments Acknowledgments Acknowledgments This book was several years in the making and I am profoundly grateful to many friends and colleagues who have accompanied me so enthusiastically along the way. Working with Brill as an author, series editor, and volume editor has been, and continues to be, a wonderful experience. In particular, I wish to thank Julian Deahl, who first green-lighted the series in which this book appears. Working closely with Marcella Mulder is a privilege and I am grateful to her for her exceptional organization, her unfailing patience, and the good humor that she maintains even at the most stressful moments. Kate Hammond gracefully stepped into Julian Deahl’s shoes and has been a marvelous shep- herd of this and several other projects. Finally, Katherine Harper’s careful copyediting improved every page of this volume, Thalien Colenbrander’s thoughtful suggestions about typesetting and her keen eye polished the final appearance of this volume immeasurably, and Chris Retz’s speed and skill as an indexer got it past the finish line in record time. I am grateful to the organizers of the International Congress on Medieval Studies for their willingness to allow whimsical ideas to take a turn on the merry-go-round in their lush academic playground. This book originated in two sessions: “Dogs, Dogs, Dogs!” and “Doggy Deux: Dogs Redux,” held at the International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, Michigan in 2013 and 2014 respectively. Several authors included in the present volume presented papers in these sessions and expanded them into the chapters published here. This book’s many strengths come from the thoughtful scholarship of the fifteen authors who contributed their work to the volume. I am humbled by their quick and cooperative responses to my many requests and for the generosity and patience all of them have shown throughout this process. Thanks as well to the anonymous reviewer whose suggestions made a significant and positive difference in shaping the book’s final form and who reviewed the book not once, but twice. Academics typically work in relative isolation, alongside only a handful of colleagues with shared research specializations. Because of this, I feel espe- cially fortunate to have found a community of colleagues at Utah State University with whom I can share ideas and enthusiasm; they include Leon Anderson, Phebe Jensen, Tammy Proctor, Alexa Sand, Christopher Scheer, Marissa Vigneault, and David Wall. I am also grateful to Craig Jessop, Dean of the Caine College of the Arts, for his sympathetic understanding of the belief that scholarship is what shapes us as people and keeps us sane as administra- tors; his support throughout this project has been invaluable.
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