Bear - History of a Fallen King

Informationen zum Autor Michel Pastoureau is a historian and Director of Studies at l'École pratique des hautes études (Sorbonne) and at l'École pratique des hautes études en sciences sociales. Klappentext From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear's centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages, literatures, and legends. Michel Pastoureau considers how this once venerated creature was deposed by Christianity and continued to sink lower in the symbolic bestiary before rising again in Pyrrhic triumph as the teddy bear. Zusammenfassung From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear’s centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages, literatures, and legends. Michel Pastoureau considers how this once venerated creature was deposed by Christianity and continued to sink lower in the symbolic bestiary before rising again in Pyrrhic triumph as the teddy bear.

Product details

• Authors: Michel Pastoureau, Pastoureau Michel
• Assisted by: George Holoch (Translation), Holoch George (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.10.2011
• EAN: 9780674047822
• ISBN: 978-0-674-04782-2
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, RELIGION / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, History of Religion, Folklore, myths & legends, Social and cultural history, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)