Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Impious Dogs, Haughty Foxes and Exquisite Fish : Evaluative Perception and Interpretation of Animals in Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean Thought / ed. by Johannes Pahlitzsch, Tristan Schmidt.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (VII, 187 p.)Content type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9783110572995
  • 9783110576412
  • 9783110576917
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • B105.A55 I47 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9783110576917

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 online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021)

Previous
Back to results
Next
Close