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The ubiquity of references to dogs in medieval and early modern texts and images must at some level reflect their actual presence in those worlds, yet scholarly consideration of this material is rare and scattered across diverse sources. This volume addresses that gap, bringing together fifteen essays that examine the appearance, meaning, and significance of dogs in painting, sculpture, manuscripts, literature, and legal records of the period, reaching beyond Europe to include cultural material from medieval Japan and Islam. While primarily art historical in focus, the authors approach the subject from a range of disciplines and with varying methodology that ultimately reveals as much about dogs as about the societies in which they lived. Contributors are Kathleen Ashley, Jane Carroll, Emily Cockayne, John Block Friedman, Karen M. Gerhart, Laura D. Gelfand, Craig A. Gibson, Walter S. Gibson, Nathan Hofer, Jane C. Long, Judith W. Mann, Sophie Oosterwijk, Elizabeth Carson Pastan, Donna L. Sadler, Alexa Sand, and Janet Snyder.
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A MODO DE PROLOGO Pedro Vacas Moreno, cual privilegiado de los dioses, viene desempeñando durante los últimos años dos de los oficios más hermosos que existen: el de crear y dar vida a multitud de proyectos literarios, y el de recrear y aportar luz sobre lo que fue y ya no existe. Todo ello a través de su pluma y su verbo como poeta, ilustrador, cronista e incansable investigador, tal como es el caso de este magnífico libro Pastores y Cabreros. Esta obra es fruto de un minucioso trabajo de campo realizado durante años con metodología y rigor científico, lo que nos permite adentrarnos en las sociedades pastoriles de la meseta alta castellana, en sus modos de vida, costumbres y tradic...