Download or read book Aristotle's Animals in the Middle Ages and Renaissance written by Carlos G. Steel and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle's zoological writings with their wealth of detailed investigations on diverse species of animals have fascinated medieval and Renaissance culture. This volume explores how these texts have been read in various traditions (Arabic, Hebrew, Latin), and how they have been incorporated in different genres (in philosophical and scientific treatises, in florilegia and encyclopedias, in theological symbolism, in moral allegories, and in manuscript illustrations). This multidisciplinary and multilinguistic approach highlights substantial aspects of Aristotle's animals.