Our Dogs, Our Selves

Laura D. Gelfand, Ph.D. (1994), Case Western Reserve University, is Professor of Art History at Utah State University. She has published widely on Northern Renaissance art and architecture and co-edits the series Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (Brill).

"Indeed, there is much to admire in this volume, including the passionate position the authors appear to take in relation to their subject matter." Pia F. Cuneo, University of Arizona, in Renaissance Quarterly 71, no. 1 (Spring 2018): 259-261.

• ContentsNote to the Reader ixAcknowledgments xList of Figures xiiList of Contributors xviiiAbstracts xxvIntroduction: Our Dogs, Our Selves 1Laura D. GelfandPart 1Literal and Literary Dogs1 In Praise of Dogs: An Encomium Theme from Classical Greece toRenaissance Italy 19Craig A. Gibson2 Who Did Let the Dogs Out?—Nuisance Dogs in Late-Medieval andEarly Modern England 41Emily Cockayne3 Wolf Cubs, the Butchers, and the Beaune Town Council 68Kathleen Ashley4 Dogs in Medieval Egyptian Sufiji Literature 78Nathan HoferPart 2Signs, Symbols and Dogs5 Fables, Bestiaries, and the Bayeux Embroidery: Man’s Best FriendMeets the “Animal Turn” 97Elizabeth Carson Pastan6 Federico Barocci’s Faithful Fidos: A Study in the Efffijicacy of Counter-Reformation Imagery 127Judith W. MannPart 3Love and Dogs7 And Your Little Dog, Too: Michal’s Lapdog and the Romance of theOld Testament 165Alexa Sand8 The Commedia of Joachim and Anna at the Scrovegni Chapel 187Jane C. Long9 Die Jagd nach der Treue, or When Desire Met Devotion 218Jane CarrollPart 4Death and Dogs10 From Biblical Beast to Faithful Friend: A Short Note on theIconography of Footrests on Tomb Monuments 243Sophie Oosterwijk11 The Canine Domain: At the Feet of Royal Tomb Efffijigies inSaint-Denis 261Donna L. Sadler12 Eternal Devotion: The Stone Canine Companions of Gothic Castile yLeón 279Janet SnyderPart 5Good Dogs and Bad Dogs13 Medieval Scavengers: Dogs in Japanese Handscrolls 303Karen M. Gerhart14 Dogs in the Identity Formation and Moral Teaching Offfered in SomeFifteenth-Century Flemish Manuscript Miniatures 325John Block Friedman15 Metaphorical Dogs in the Later Middle Ages: The Dogs of God and theHounds of Hell 363Walter S. GibsonBibliography 387Index 418