The Bear: History of a Fallen King

ISBN-10: 0674047826
ISBN-13: 9780674047822
Series: The Bear
Category: Animals and civilization
Pages: 343
Language: English
Published: 2011
Publisher: Belknap Press
Author: Michel Pastoureau

Description

From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear's centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages, literatures, and legends. Michel Pastoureau considers how this once venerated creature was deposed by Christianity and continued to sink lower in the symbolic bestiary before rising again in Pyrrhic triumph as the teddy bear.

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