Description
Product ID: | 9780674047822 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | The Bear |
Subtitle: | History of a Fallen King |
Authors: | Author: Michel Pastoureau, George Holoch |
Page Count: | 384 |
Subjects: | Social and cultural history, Social & cultural history, History of religion, Popular culture, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology), History of religion, Popular culture, Folklore, myths & legends |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
Imprint Name: | The Belknap Press |
Publisher Name: | Harvard University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2011-10-17 |