Among the works specially devoted to the world animal, vegetable and mineral from a Christian perspective, a A special place must be reserved for the Greek Physiologus . This work has enjoyed extraordinary success in the language regions Greek and beyond, through multiple translations into several European, Asian and African languages. Through its original approach, focused on naturalistic aspects and not only theological of the Greek Physiologus , this first volume offers a renewed analysis of the work, focusing in particular on to its author, its date and place of execution, as well as on the sources used and the editorial strategies followed. The contents and the structure of the chapters are also studied in detail, just like the different reviews and the manuscripts containing them. The study concludes on the destiny and readership of Physiologus Greek, both at its beginnings and during the following centuries. = [Abstract]

Language: French

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