John B. Friedman
List of John Benjamins publications in which John B. Friedman is involved.
Articles
2022 Dogs of lust, loyalty, and ingratitude in the Early Modern manuscript painting of Robinet Testard Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society, Trachsler, Richard and Baudouin Van den Abeele (eds.), pp. 94–128 | Article
Robinet Testard, the court illuminator from 1484 to 1531 for Count Charles of Angoulême (d. 1496) and Louise of Savoie (d. 1531), had an artistic career extending from the era of the handwritten book into the age of printing and graphic media. His embrace of these new technologies included… read more
2020 Tracking the Mysterious Loz in the Secrets of Natural History Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society, Trachsler, Richard and Baudouin Van den Abeele (eds.), pp. 104–136 | Article
The loz is a bovid that in medieval folklore was believed to live in Bohemia. It defended itself against hunters by spraying them with boiling and corrosive water stored in a dewlap beneath its neck. First appearing in the learned tradition with Bartholomaeus Anglicus’ De proprietatibus rerum,… read more