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The Christian vision of animals in the Middle Ages: examples of Christological symbolism
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This article aims to highlight how medieval zoology is far from any scientific rigour that modern science requires but it is perfectly framed and explained within the profoundly symbolic world view in the Middles Ages, through an illustrative but notexhaustive overview of animals present in medieval bestiaries that show a positive or negative correlation with the figure of Christ. - [Abstract]
Language: English
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