Bestiary

In my opinion, the Bestiary was basically the most humorous article that we have read thus far in the course. I have to agree with Jennifer in regards to her statement that it was interesting to see the factual and ridicules statements made in the summaries about the animals. I feel that it wasn’t so much that the people who believed these statements were less knowledgeable because they only believed the higher up “God” like figures that wrote the statements. What else could they go by…? If you’ve never seen something you would most likely believe the highly educated and upper class church people who wrote the statements since these people were most important back in the day. However I guess the writer’s of the Bestiary took into consideration things they heard in the past, other people’s opinions and stories along with their own interpretations to what they felt was the best illustrations and characteristics of the animals. By interpreting the factual and false assumptions made by the writers of the Bestiary, people know our days can question more what has changed from the past to the present, and maybe even debate on how meaning will be perceived in the future.