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.

Библиографические подробности
Главный автор: Miller, Patricia Cox, 1947- (Автор)
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Язык:английский
Опубликовано: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press [2018]
Серии:Divinations.
Online-ссылка:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv16t6h38
Оглавление:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Animals and Figuration: The Case of Birds
  • Chapter 2. The Pensivity of Animals, I: Zoomorphism
  • Chapter 3. The Pensivity of Animals, II: Anthropomorphism
  • Chapter 4. Wild Animals: Desert Ascetics and Their Companions
  • Chapter 5. Small Things: The Vibrant Materiality of Tiny Creatures
  • Afterword
  • Appendix: Ancient Christian and Other Authors