Throughout Western civilization, animals have decorated heraldic
shields, populated medieval manuscripts, and ornamented baroque
pottery. Animals have also been our companions, our correctives,
and our ciphers as humanity has represented and addressed issues of
authority, cultural strife, and self-awareness as theological,
moral, and social beings. In The Wisdom of Animals: Creatureliness
in Early Modern French Spirituality, Catharine Randall traces two
threads of thought that consistently appear in a number of early
modern French texts: how animals are used as a means for humans to
explore themselves and the meaning of existence; and how animals
can be subjects in their own right. In her accessible,
interdisciplinary study, Randall explores the link between
philosophical and theological discussions of the nature and status
of animals vis-a-vis the rest of existence, particularly humans. In
doing so, she provides the early modern backdrop for the more
frequently studied modern and postmodern notions of animality.
Randall approaches her themes by way of French confessional and
devotional literature, especially the works of Michel de Montaigne,
Guillaume Salluste Du Bartas, St. Francois de Sales, and
Guillaume-Hyacinthe Bougeant. From these, she elicits contrasting
perspectives of animality: rational vs. mystical, representational
vs. sacramental, religious vs. secular, and Protestant vs. Jesuit
Catholic perspectives.
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