Captions are very common in medieval manuscripts. They inhabit the liminal space between text and image and, formally speaking, belong to both and neither. Their indeterminacy has contributed to the current state of research on captions: so far, captions as a genre sui generis are rarely discussed in the scholarly literature, in works dealing with either the history of art or with the history of text. Here, I will discuss in detail the corpus of captions as they appear in the genre of Medieval Latin bestiaries, one of the most influential types of medieval pedagogical books. - [Author]

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