Our Dogs, Our Selves Dogs in Medieval and Early Modern Art, Literature, and Society

Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Abstracts
Note to the Reader
Introduction: Our Dogs, Our Selves
Part 1 Literal and Literary Dogs
Chapter 1 In Praise of Dogs: An Encomium Theme from Classical Greece to Renaissance Italy
Chapter 2 Who Did Let the Dogs Out?—Nuisance Dogs in Late-Medieval and Early Modern England
Chapter 3 Wolf Cubs, the Butchers, and the Beaune Town Council
Chapter 4 Dogs in Medieval Egyptian Sufi Literature
Part 2 Signs, Symbols and Dogs
Chapter 5 Fables, Bestiaries, and the Bayeux Embroidery: Man’s Best Friend Meets the “Animal Turn”
Chapter 6 Federico Barocci’s Faithful Fidos: A Study in the Efficacy of Counter-Reformation Imagery
Part 3 Love and Dogs
Chapter 7 And Your Little Dog, Too: Michal’s Lapdog and the Romance of the Old Testament
Chapter 8 The Commedia of Joachim and Anna at the Scrovegni Chapel
Chapter 9 Die Jagd nach der Treue, or When Desire Met Devotion
Part 4 Death and Dogs
Chapter 10 From Biblical Beast to Faithful Friend: A Short Note on the Iconography of Footrests on Tomb Monuments
Chapter 11 The Canine Domain: At the Feet of Royal Tomb Effigies in Saint-Denis
Chapter 12 Eternal Devotion: The Stone Canine Companions of Gothic Castile y León
Part 5 Good Dogs and Bad Dogs
Chapter 13 Medieval Scavengers: Dogs in Japanese Handscrolls
Chapter 14 Dogs in the Identity Formation and Moral Teaching Offered in Some Fifteenth-Century Flemish Manuscript Miniatures
Chapter 15 Metaphorical Dogs in the Later Middle Ages: The Dogs of God and the Hounds of Hell
Bibliography
Index