Liam Lewis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3642391 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liam Lewis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liam |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewis |
| SIGNATURE | LEWIS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1734-3467 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Origins of Bear-Baiting
Bear-baiting, the act of setting dogs on tethered bears to fight, was an important social and economic activity in early modern England. It has been suggested that baiting was practiced in Western Europe during the Middle Ages, but the evidence for such claims has largely been restricted to images of bears in manuscript marginalia. For the first time, this article presents an interdisciplinary overview of the literary, archival, archaeological, a…
Les monstres des hommes”
Corinne Pierreville, Loups-garous du Moyen Âge
This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Bear journeys in early modern England
This article offers unprecedented insight into the domestic movements of early modern commercial entertainment producers based on fresh archival and archaeological details about bears and bearwards, centring on a surviving two-month journey record. We plot roadways taken and the lengths and times via GIS mapping, offering a fresh spatial humanities methodology to explore commercial life on the road and its consequences. Together, these sources an…
Jacob Abell, Spiritual and Material Boundaries in Old French Verse
What does a bear-baiting assemblage look like? Interdisciplinary analysis of an Early Modern 'sport
Bear baiting was a popular form of entertainment in Shakespearean England that was staged across the country but formalised in the Early Modern entertainment hub on Bankside, London. Here, the authors bring together zooarchaeological, stable isotope and archival evidence in the examination of faunal assemblages from nine archaeological sites on Bankside to elucidate characteristics indicative of bear baiting. In doing so, they present criteria fo…
Eko; Eko; Azarak
The literature of neopaganism often evokes an indigenous medieval past to resist social and religious convention and assert a queer identity in the present. Using theories of untranslatability, this article shows how a medieval incantation mobilizes queer language and forms communities in the novel High Magic's Aid by Gerald B. Gardner. This novel outlines the keys to the religion Gardner sought to promote in the 1940s: pagan witchcraft. It featu…
‘ Man Spekeþ, bere brayeþ ’
This article traces how medieval texts written in English and French adopt the link between human language and bear roaring to inscribe bears into the poetic landscape. I place this discussion in the context of archaeological evidence, which reveals a steady increase in the presence of ursids in England after the Norman conquest, before which they were extinct, and culminating in the bear fighting arenas of early modern England. I show that works…
Rewilding with the cri in Medieval French Texts
Focusing on two medieval narratives about identity transformation, Yvain and Mélusine , this article explores areas of dialogue between medieval literary studies and current perspectives on sound and rewilding the environment. Sound studies have in recent times enabled a more expansive philosophical reflection on the intersections between language, ecology, and identity. This article uses a friction between philosophical perspectives on the Frenc…
Animal Umwelt and Sound Milieus in the Middle English Physiologus
The Middle English Physiologus features three different nonhuman animals — the lion, the mermaid, and the elephant — whose vocalized sounds resonate on literal and figurative levels. The networks of relationality that ascribe agency to these beings through the representation of sonic phenomena are complex in ways that exceed the conceptual boundaries of a textual “soundscape.” Drawing on recent studies of the terminology used to describe sound in…
Animal Umwelt and Sound Milieus in the Middle English Physiologus
The Middle English Physiologus features three different nonhuman animals — the lion, the mermaid, and the elephant — whose vocalized sounds resonate on literal and figurative levels. The networks of relationality that ascribe agency to these beings through the representation of sonic phenomena are complex in ways that exceed the conceptual boundaries of a textual “soundscape.” Drawing on recent studies of the terminology used to describe sound in…
Animal Umwelt and Sound Milieus in the Middle English Physiologus
The Middle English Physiologus features three different nonhuman animals — the lion, the mermaid, and the elephant — whose vocalized sounds resonate on literal and figurative levels. The networks of relationality that ascribe agency to these beings through the representation of sonic phenomena are complex in ways that exceed the conceptual boundaries of a textual “soundscape.” Drawing on recent studies of the terminology used to describe sound in…
‘ Man Spekeþ, bere brayeþ ’
This article traces how medieval texts written in English and French adopt the link between human language and bear roaring to inscribe bears into the poetic landscape. I place this discussion in the context of archaeological evidence, which reveals a steady increase in the presence of ursids in England after the Norman conquest, before which they were extinct, and culminating in the bear fighting arenas of early modern England. I show that works…
Rewilding with the cri in Medieval French Texts
Focusing on two medieval narratives about identity transformation, Yvain and Mélusine , this article explores areas of dialogue between medieval literary studies and current perspectives on sound and rewilding the environment. Sound studies have in recent times enabled a more expansive philosophical reflection on the intersections between language, ecology, and identity. This article uses a friction between philosophical perspectives on the Frenc…
Eko; Eko; Azarak
The literature of neopaganism often evokes an indigenous medieval past to resist social and religious convention and assert a queer identity in the present. Using theories of untranslatability, this article shows how a medieval incantation mobilizes queer language and forms communities in the novel High Magic's Aid by Gerald B. Gardner. This novel outlines the keys to the religion Gardner sought to promote in the 1940s: pagan witchcraft. It featu…
Bear journeys in early modern England
This article offers unprecedented insight into the domestic movements of early modern commercial entertainment producers based on fresh archival and archaeological details about bears and bearwards, centring on a surviving two-month journey record. We plot roadways taken and the lengths and times via GIS mapping, offering a fresh spatial humanities methodology to explore commercial life on the road and its consequences. Together, these sources an…
Jacob Abell, Spiritual and Material Boundaries in Old French Verse
What does a bear-baiting assemblage look like? Interdisciplinary analysis of an Early Modern 'sport
Bear baiting was a popular form of entertainment in Shakespearean England that was staged across the country but formalised in the Early Modern entertainment hub on Bankside, London. Here, the authors bring together zooarchaeological, stable isotope and archival evidence in the examination of faunal assemblages from nine archaeological sites on Bankside to elucidate characteristics indicative of bear baiting. In doing so, they present criteria fo…
The Origins of Bear-Baiting
Bear-baiting, the act of setting dogs on tethered bears to fight, was an important social and economic activity in early modern England. It has been suggested that baiting was practiced in Western Europe during the Middle Ages, but the evidence for such claims has largely been restricted to images of bears in manuscript marginalia. For the first time, this article presents an interdisciplinary overview of the literary, archival, archaeological, a…
Les monstres des hommes”
Corinne Pierreville, Loups-garous du Moyen Âge
This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (3 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Medieval European Literature and History (2 works)