The Bear: History of a Fallen King

by Michel Pastoureau (Author), George Holoch (Author)

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2011
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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.

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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.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 326
Edition: Tra
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 11 Nov 2011
ISBN 10: 0674047826
ISBN 13: 9780674047822

The Bear: History of a Fallen King

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