Introducing the Medieval Ass by Smithies, Kathryn L.

Introducing the Medieval Ass

Introducing the Medieval Ass presents a lucid, accessible, and comprehensive picture of the enormous socioeconomic and cultural...
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Introducing the Medieval Ass by Smithies, Kathryn L.

Introducing the Medieval Ass

$32.56

Introducing the Medieval Ass

$32.56
Author: Kathryn L. Smithies
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.


Author: Kathryn L. Smithies
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 11/22/2020
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781786836229

About the Author
Kathryn Smithies is a medieval historian and research and teaching associate in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne.



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