Wolf. Cultural history
19.99 €
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Wolf. Cultural history
19.99 €
A new richly illustrated book by the renowned French medievalist Michel Pastoureau. With an introductory article and edited by Michael Maizuls, one of the authors of The Suffering Middle Ages. Translated from the French by Stanislav Mukhamedjanov.
The wolf is one of the most important images in the cultural history of Europe. The wolf has inhabited human consciousness since the most ancient times and plays an important role in the stories and myths known to all. The Roman she-wolf that nurtured Romulus and Remus, the wolf Fenrir, the doom of the Nordic pantheon, hundreds of stories about animal metamorphoses and werewolves - just the top of this mountain of images. In the Middle Ages, the image of the wolf changes, the fear of him goes to the background - in bestiaries and a number of fairy tales he is portrayed as ridiculous, deceived by other animals and constantly pursued by hunters beast. And only with the advent of the New Age fear of the wolf returns to culture, since then he is not only a foolish hunter of livestock, but a villain and devourer.
This book by Michel Pastoureau is devoted to analyzing the numerous cultural transformations of the image of the wolf, hundreds of related stories, and ancient legends about the voracious beast.
The wolf is one of the most important images in the cultural history of Europe. The wolf has inhabited human consciousness since the most ancient times and plays an important role in the stories and myths known to all. The Roman she-wolf that nurtured Romulus and Remus, the wolf Fenrir, the doom of the Nordic pantheon, hundreds of stories about animal metamorphoses and werewolves - just the top of this mountain of images. In the Middle Ages, the image of the wolf changes, the fear of him goes to the background - in bestiaries and a number of fairy tales he is portrayed as ridiculous, deceived by other animals and constantly pursued by hunters beast. And only with the advent of the New Age fear of the wolf returns to culture, since then he is not only a foolish hunter of livestock, but a villain and devourer.
This book by Michel Pastoureau is devoted to analyzing the numerous cultural transformations of the image of the wolf, hundreds of related stories, and ancient legends about the voracious beast.
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