The Bestiary is now on a new server at a new hosting company. Very little has changed yet, but stay tuned: big changes are coming!

Finally, an update. Just the usual “more of everything”, with an emphasis on manuscript descriptions.

In addition to the usual updates to the beast, manuscript and bibliography pages, there are two new articles by George C. Druce in the digtal text library. The Medieval Bestiary site is now receiving an average of 30,000 visitors per month.

After a long pause, a small update… Just a bit of everything. More to come!

The beast pages have been updated with information on the allegory or moralizations that were applied to the beast tales, along with some more historical source information. There are also minor updates to other pages, new bibliography items, etc.

With the permission of the Museum Meermo in The Hague, about 130 images have been added to the beast and manuscript galleries. There are also new items in the bibliography, and a few new and updated manuscripts.

The Medieval Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages is now two years old! In that time it has gone from less than 200 visits per month to over 18,000 visits per month. Thanks, faithful readers! This is another large update. By permission of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Royal Library) of the Netherlands, over 150 new images […]

The “primary source” section has been expanded and will now include more than just the sources of medieval beast lore, so it has been renamed the Encyclopedia. Several manuscript descriptions have been added, as well as a few more bibliography items.

A large update this time. The section on the bestiary “Family” classification system is now ready. This links to several other parts of the site, so it is a good starting point for exploration of the bestiary genre. There are also several more “primary source” articles, new and updated manuscript descriptions, a few more pictures, […]

A new digital text is now available: Le Bestiaire de Gervaise, a Norman French rhyming verse bestiary of the thirteenth century, in a critical edition by Paul Meyer (1872). There is also a little information on Gervaise, plus the usual updates to the bibliography and manuscript sections.