Ingvild Saelid Gilhus

Animals, Gods and Humans

Changing Attitudes to Animals in Greek, Roman and Early Christian Ideas

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Consulting a wide range of key texts and source material, this book covers 800 years and provides a detailed analysis of early Christian attitudes to, and the position of, animals in Greek and Roman life and thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 164mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 619g
• ISBN-13: 9780415386494
• ISBN-10: 0415386497
• Artikelnr.: 21065713

Autorenporträt

Ingvild Saelid Gilhus

Inhaltsangabe

Introdution 1. Animals in the Roman Empire 2. United by Soul or Divided by
Reason 3. Vegetarianism, Natural History and Physiognomics 4. Imagination
and Transformation 5. The Religious Value of Animals 6. Animals Sacrifice:
Traditions and new Inventions 7. "God is a Man-Eater": The Animal Sacrifice
and its Critics 8. The New Testament and the Lamb of God 9. Fighting the
Beasts 10. Internal Animals and Bestial Demons 11. The crucIfied Donkeyman,
the Leontocephalus, and the Challenge of Beasts 12. Winged Humans, Speaking
Animals Notes Bibliography