Ilya Dines
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ilya Dines plays a role.
2024 A fox imitates a dog: An obscure moralization in 13th century bestiaries Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society, Trachsler, Richard and Baudouin Van den Abeele (eds.), pp. 38–51 | Article
Most medieval bestiaries and encyclopaedias recount the fox’s famous trick of feigning its death to capture unsuspecting birds that perch naively upon it. However, despite this story’s popularity, medieval sources do not always present it in the same way. This article discusses several medieval… read more
2020 Mnemonic verses concerning animals and birds in Cambridge University Library, Ms Oo. Vii.48 Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society, Trachsler, Richard and Baudouin Van den Abeele (eds.), pp. 62–70 | Article
This article is devoted to an essentially unknown fragment containing a collection of thirteenth-century mnemonic verses about animals and birds. It is a logical continuation of a study I published in 2010 in Reinardus about the entire corpus of mnemonic verses that appear in medieval Latin… read more
2012 The problem of the Transitional Family of bestiaries Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society, Trachsler, Richard, Baudouin Van den Abeele and Paul Wackers (eds.), pp. 29–52 | Article
It is already almost 100 years since Montague Rhodes James divided all bestiary manuscripts that were known to him into groups or families. Since then, his scheme has undergone several revisions, and the table established through the modifications of McCulloch and Yapp shows five families of… read more
2010 Mnemonic verses in medieval bestiaries Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society, Abeele, Baudouin Van den and Paul Wackers (eds.), pp. 50–64 | Article
Mnemonic verses were one of the most popular tools for medieval teaching. These verses are attested in all genres of medieval literature, but strangely enough they are rare in medieval bestiaries, which are primarily a didactic genre. My paper will discuss a previously neglected case of one Second… read more
2004 The Hare and its Alter Ego in the Middle Ages Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society, Levy, Brian J. and Paul Wackers (eds.), pp. 73–84 | Article