The Wild Man: Medieval Myth and Symbolism, by Timothy Husband (hardcover). 1980.

The Wild Man: Medieval Myth and Symbolism, by Timothy Husband (hardcover). We received a collection of items with Wild Man motifs, some dating back to 1939! Watch the auction for Wild Man items over the next few months! For those who want to know more about the Wild Man (closely related to the Green Man), read this book. "Toward the end of Middle Ages, all aspects of life had become so steeped in an atmosphere of deep religiosity that no object or incident, no idea or action could escape religious interpretation....Nothing better demonstrates this phenomenon than the myth of the medieval wild man. The Wild Medieval Myth and Symbolism offers a valuable examination of an idea together with its one of the most delightful and fascinating inventions of the medieval imagination―the hairy, primitive, woodland creature who at first embodied the evil that medieval man feared, then, as the old order declined, became the object of his envy, the embodiment of ideal freedom. By focusing on the wild man’s evolution in art, a range of life in the Medieval era is presented. With the assistance of Gloria Gilmore-House, Timothy Husband analyzes the many roles and guises the wild man took, and his symbolic significance." Lavishly illustrated with drawings and many color plates.