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.

书目详细资料
主要作者: Miller, Patricia Cox, 1947- (Author)
格式: Licensed eBooks
语言:英语
出版: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
丛编:Divinations.
在线阅读:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv16t6h38
书本目录:
  • 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.