Download or read book The Naming of the Beasts written by Wilma B. George and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1991 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book, the first to be written by authors who know about animals, is based on a study of 40 manuscripts. It shows that bestiaries are not, as so often thought, mere compendia of old wives' tales and religious symbolism but important documents for any serious history of medieval science"--