In the Eye of the Animal : Zoological Imagination in Ancient Christianity /
In the Eye of the Animal: Zoological Imagination in Ancient Christianity complicates the role of animals in early Christian thought by showing how ancient texts and images celebrated a continuum of human and animal life.
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2018]
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| Edice: | Divinations.
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv16t6h38 |
Obsah:
- Introduction
- 1. Animals and figuration : the case of birds
- 2. The pensivity of animals
- I. Zoomorphism
- 3. The pensivity of animals
- II. Anthropomorphism
- 4. Wild animals : desert ascetics and their companions
- 5. Small things : the vibrant materiality of tiny creatures
- Afterword
- Appendix: Ancient Christian and other authors.