Here is an excerpt from The Adventures of Kalamazoo recently published by James A. Murtha, a cat lover. If you’d like to read more of his stories, click here to visit his website. One Sunday afternoon, Kalamazoo and I channel-surfed from the couch, for me a mindless respite from the classroom and for him a […]
Cat Poems – Agathias 550AD
August 30, 2013 By
Agathias wrote the first poem about a cat in history. Born in 530AD in Asia Minor, in today’s Turkey, he was known as a poet and a historian of the reign of the Byzantine Roman emperor Justinian I between 552 and 558. In this poem written in 550AD Agathias mentions a ravenous cat attacking one of his beloved […]
HISTORY OF THE CAT IN THE MIDDLE AGES (PART 8)
March 22, 2013 By
History of the Cat in Medieval Literature Tibert the Cat in the fable Reynard the Fox By the 12th century the cat had transitioned from solely a model for illustrations to a full blown character in medieval literature. The cat’s first starring role was as Tibert in the story Reynard the Fox. Written by Pierre […]
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