Friday, May 06, 2005

And now a picture of a Wild Man



Wild men, living in the woods or in desert areas far from civilization, were a common literary theme of the later Middle Ages and the Early Modern period.
This image comes from: J[on]. B[ulwer]., Anthropometamorphosis: = Man Transform'd: Or, the Artificiall Changling Historically Presented, in the Mad and Cruell Gallantry, London, 1653.
(I found it in an interesting article by Mary E. Fissell)


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