Birds in the Moon

Harrison, Thomas P.

doi:10.1086/348354

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“…People in the seventeenth century were enchanted by the possibility of moon voyages, so this strange theory should be taken as a reflection of the new interest in the heavens following the discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler. 60 The idea of swallows undertaking lunar migration survived for a little time. Poet and dramatist John Gay in 1714 named the moon as the place 'where swallows in the winter's season keep'.…”

Section: Swallows In Christian Europementioning

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Cultural responses to the migration of the barn swallow in Europe

Green¹

2019

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This paper investigates the place of barn swallows in European folklore and science from the Bronze Age to the nineteenth century. It takes the swallow's natural migratory patterns as a starting point, and investigates how different cultural groups across this period have responded to the bird's departure in autumn and its subsequent return every spring. While my analysis is focused on classical European texts, including scientific and theological writings, I have also considered the swallow's representation in art. The aim of this article is to build a longue durée account of how beliefs about the swallow have evolved over time, even as the bird's migratory patterns have remained the same. As I argue, the influence of classical texts on medieval and Renaissance thought in Europe allows us to consider a temporal progression (and sometimes regression) in the way barn swallow migration was explained and understood.

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Section: Swallows In Christian Europementioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural responses to the migration of the barn swallow in Europe

Green¹

2019

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Discovering the Final Frontier: The Seventeenth-Century Encounter with the Lunar Environment

Rawson¹

2015

Environmental History

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Renaissance Futurities: Science, Art, Invention

Black¹,

Álvarez²

2019

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Renaissance Futurities considers the intersections between artistic rebirth, the new science, and European imperialism in the global early modern world. Charlene Villaseñor Black and Mari-Tere Álvarez reconsider the work of Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), prolific artist and inventor, and other polymaths such as philosopher Giulio “Delminio” Camillo (1480–1544), physician and naturalist Francisco Hernández de Toledo (1514–1587), and writer Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616). This concern with futurity is inspired by the Renaissance itself, a period defined by visions of the future, as well as by recent theorizing of temporality in Renaissance, queer, and ethnic studies. This transdisciplinary collection is at the cutting edge of the humanities, the sciences, and the arts with contributions in history, art history, literature, media studies, mathematics, and medicine.

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Birds in the Moon

Cited by 13 publications

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Cultural responses to the migration of the barn swallow in Europe

Cultural responses to the migration of the barn swallow in Europe

Discovering the Final Frontier: The Seventeenth-Century Encounter with the Lunar Environment

Renaissance Futurities: Science, Art, Invention

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