TY  - GEN
T1  - Introducing the medieval ass
T2  - Medieval animals.
A1  - Smithies, Kathryn L.
LA  - English
PP  - Cardiff
PB  - University of Wales Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1190722662
AB  - "Introducing the Medieval Ass presents a lucid, accessible, and comprehensive picture of the enormous socioeconomic and cultural significance of the ass, or donkey, in the Middle Ages and beyond. In medieval times, the ass was a vital, utilitarian beast of burden, rather like ubiquitous white delivery vans today. At the same time, however, the ass had a rich, paradoxical reputation. Its hard work was praised but its obstinacy condemned. It exemplified the good Christian, humbly bearing Christ to Jerusalem, but also represented sloth, a mortal sin. It had a potent sexual reputation--in one literary work, an ass had sex with a woman--even as it was simultaneously linked to sterility. Over time, the ass also became synonymous with human idiocy, a comic figure representing foolish peasants, students too dull to learn, and their asinine teachers. This trope of foolishness was so prevalent that by the eighteenth century the word "ass" began to be replaced by "donkey." Introducing the Medieval Ass offers a wide-ranging account of the importance, and often surprising cultural prevalence, of this common domesticated animal."
OP  - 163
CN  - PR275.A47
SN  - 9781786836236
SN  - 1786836238
SN  - 9781786836243
SN  - 1786836246
SN  - 9781786836250
SN  - 1786836254
SN  - 9781786836229
SN  - 178683622X
KW  - English literature : Middle English, 1100-1500 : History and criticism.
KW  - Donkeys in literature.
KW  - Littérature anglaise : 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Âne dans la littérature.
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Medieval
KW  - Donkeys in literature
KW  - English literature : Middle English
KW  - 1100-1500
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - Literary criticism.
KW  - Critiques littéraires.
ER  -