TY  - BOOK
AU  - Breier,Idan
AU  - Fleuren,Imke
AU  - Obermaier,Sabine
AU  - Pahlitzsch,Johannes
AU  - Richardson,Seth
AU  - Schmidt,Tristan
AU  - Stewart,Kirsty
AU  - Tutrone,Fabio
TI  - Impious Dogs, Haughty Foxes and Exquisite Fish: Evaluative Perception and Interpretation of Animals in Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean Thought 
SN  - 9783110572995
AV  - B105.A55 I47 2019
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - Animals (Philosophy)
KW  - Mediterranean Region
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Animals
KW  - Symbolic aspects
KW  - Human-animal relationships
KW  - Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen
KW  - Naturwahrnehmung
KW  - Tierbildlichkeit
KW  - HISTORY / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Human-Animal Studies, Human-Animal Relationship
KW  - Perception of Nature
N1  - Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Introduction: Perception and Evaluation of Animals in Euro-Mediterranean Cultures --; Nature Engaged and Disengaged --; Animal Imagery as a Means to Describe ‘the Other’ in Ancient Egypt --; Shaming by Naming --; Barking at the Threshold --; Noble Hounds for Aristocrats, Stray Dogs for Heretics --; You Are the Animal That You Eat --; ‘An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds’ --; Index; restricted access
N2  - This volume is dedicated to the topic of the human evaluation and interpretation of animals in ancient and medieval cultures. From a transcultural perspective contributions from Assyriology, Byzantine Studies, Classical Archaeology, Egyptology, German Medieval Studies and Jewish History look into the processes and mechanisms behind the transfer by people of certain values to animals, and the functions these animal-signs have within written, pictorial and performative forms of expression
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110576917
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