Wisdom of Animals Creatureliness in Early Modern French Spirituality

• Main Author: Randall, Catharine
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Notre Dame, IN University of Notre Dame Press 2014
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Animals; Animals (Philosophy); European; French; LITERARY CRITICISM; Medieval Studies

Throughout Western civilization, animals have decorated heraldic shields, populated medieval manuscripts, and ornamented baroque pottery. Animals have also been our companions, our correctives, and our ciphers as humanity has represented and addressed issues of authority, cultural strife, and self-...