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Medieval Animals: Introducing the Medieval Ass

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Introducing the Medieval Ass considers the fascinating ways that medieval people understood the ass, or donkey. A beast of burden and metaphor for human behaviour, medieval authors used the ass’s assumed traits – irrationality, humility, stubborness, sexual perversion – to educate, entertain, and enthral.

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Cyfrol sy’n ystyried canfyddiad rhyfeddol pobl yr oesoedd canol o’r asyn. Yn greadur cario beichiau ac yn drosiad am ymddygiad dynol, defnyddiwyd nodweddion tybiedig yr asyn – afresymoldeb, gostyngeiddrwydd, ystyfnigrwydd, ymddygiad croesrywiog – i addysgu, difyrru a swyno.
Introducing the Medieval Ass considers the fascinating ways that medieval people understood the ass, or donkey. A beast of burden and metaphor for human behaviour, medieval authors used the ass’s assumed traits – irrationality, humility, stubborness, sexual perversion – to educate, entertain, and enthral.

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English