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Talking Animals
Medieval Latin Beast Poetry, 750-1150

Jan M. Ziolkowski

University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia

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Cover stamp: Illustration of the Tityrus from John Vinycomb, Fictitious and Symbolic Creatures in Art ( London, 1906).Copyright 1993 by the University of Pennsylvania Press
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of AmericaLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ziolkowski Jan M. Talking animals: medieval Latin beast poetry, 750-1150 / Jan M. Ziolkowski .

p. cm -- (Middle Ages series)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-8122-3161-9

1.	Latin poetry, Medieval and modern -- History and criticism.
2.	Animals in literature. I. Title. II. Series.

PA8065.A54Z55 1993

871'.030936 -- dc20 92-46709

CIP

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TO SASKIA, ADA, AND YETTA, three little girls who were born while this big bad wolf lurked at the door

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: Inspirations and Analogues

Fables and Tales

Christian Animal Symbolism

Classical Poetry

2: Beast Narrative and the Court of Charlemagne

Alcuin and Other Carolingian Poets

"The Sick Lion" and "The Sad Calf"

3: Further Beyond Fable

"The Nanny Goat"

Sedulius Scottus's "The Ram"

Walahfrid Strabo's Man and Eagle

Mystical Poems with Talking Birds

4: Toward Narrative Complexity

Eugenius Vulgarius's "Comic Visions"

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Leo of Vercelli's "Meter"

Conclusion

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5: Dramatic and Dialogic Beast Poems

Beast Flytings

Insect Debates

Flytings in the Schools

Animals in Place of People

Animals in Popular Theater and Ritual

Conclusion

6: The Calf-Monk and Wolf-Monk in Performance

Introduction to the Ecbasis Captivi

153

The Prologue

The Outer Story (Part 1)

The Inner Story

The Outer Story (Part 2)

Conclusion

7: Ysengrim, the Wolf-Monk with a Name

"The Cock and Fox" and "The Wolf"

198

The Ysengrimus and Its Author 210

Monkish and Wolfish Rules

The Liturgy Strikes Back

Conclusion

Appendices (Translations)

1. Alcuin, "The Cock and Wolf"

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2. Alcuin, Letter 181

3. Cuono of St. Nabor, "The Peacock and Owl"

4. Egbert of Lige, "The Bear, Wolf, and Fox"

5. Eugenius Vulgarius, "Comic Visions"

6. Froumund of Tegernsee, Poem 19

7. Leo of Vercelli, "Meter"

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8. Physiologus Latinus (Versio B)

9. Sedulius Scottus, "The Ram"

10. Theodulf, "The Battle of the Birds"

11. Theodulf, "The Fox and Hen"

12. Theodulf, "What Do the Swans Do?"

13. Thierry of St. Trond, "Weep, Dogs"

14. Walahfrid Strabo, "To Erluin"

15. William of Blois, "The Quarrel of the Flea and Fly"

16."The Altercation of the Spider and Fly"

17."The Ass Brought before the Bishop"

18."The Cock and Fox"

19."The Flea"

20."Gout and the Flea"

21."The Hawk and Peacock"

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22."The Lombard and Snail"

23."The Louse"

24."The Prose of the Ass"

25."The Sad Calf"

26."The Sick Lion"

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27."The Swan Lament"

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