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2014

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Catharine Randall

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University of Notre Dame Press

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30 mars 2014

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EAN13

9780268091804

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

Throughout Western civilization, animals have decorated heraldic shields, populated medieval manuscripts, and ornamented baroque pottery. Animals have also been our companions, our correctives, and our ciphers as humanity has represented and addressed issues of authority, cultural strife, and self-awareness as theological, moral, and social beings. In The Wisdom of Animals: Creatureliness in Early Modern French Spirituality, Catharine Randall traces two threads of thought that consistently appear in a number of early modern French texts: how animals are used as a means for humans to explore themselves and the meaning of existence; and how animals can be subjects in their own right.

In her accessible, interdisciplinary study, Randall explores the link between philosophical and theological discussions of the nature and status of animals vis-à-vis the rest of existence, particularly humans. In doing so, she provides the early modern backdrop for the more frequently studied modern and postmodern notions of animality. Randall approaches her themes by way of French confessional and devotional literature, especially the works of Michel de Montaigne, Guillaume Salluste Du Bartas, St. François de Sales, and Guillaume-Hyacinthe Bougeant. From these, she elicits contrasting perspectives of animality: rational vs. mystical, representational vs. sacramental, religious vs. secular, and Protestant vs. Jesuit Catholic perspectives.

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Publié par

University of Notre Dame Press

Date de parution

30 mars 2014

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780268091804

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

T H E W I S D O M O F A N I M A L S

Creatureliness in Early Modern French Spirituality

C A T H A R I N E R A N D A L L

University of Notre Dame Press Notre Dame, Indiana •

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Randall, Catharine, 1957– The wisdom of animals : creatureliness in early modern French spirituality / Catharine Randall. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-268-04035-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-268-04035-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-268-09180-4 (e-book) 1. Animals—Religious aspects—Christianity. 2. Animals (Philosophy) 3. Montaigne, Michel de, 1533–1592—Criticism and interpretation. 4. Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544–1590—Criticism and interpretation. 5. Bougeant, G.-H. (Guillaume-Hyacinthe), 1690–1743— Criticism and interpretation. I. Title. BT746.R36 2014 840.9'362—dc23 2013044486

∞The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.

For Henry the horse . . .

Beautiful boy, delight of my eyes, and great teacher

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Animals and Authority

Chapter One Sixteenth-Century Animal Avatars in Montaigne and His Contemporaries15

Chapter Two Job’s Horse and Other Creatures: Animal Analogies in Du Bartas’s Protestant Poetics

Chapter Three The Fauna of Faith: Animating Spirituality

Chapter Four Le Père Bougeant’s Heresy: Animal Societies, Languages, and Souls

Conclusion: Faith in Fauna

Notes

139

Bibliography

Index

169

161

125

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Inﬁnite gratitude, as always, to my beloved husband, Randall Balmer. Thanks for the great thoughts and enthusiasm from the students in my animal rights classes at both Fordham University and Dartmouth College. All things come of Thee, O Lord, and of Thine own have we given Thee.

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