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Frog as a symbol in the commentary on the book of revelation by Tyconius the African (Rev. 16. 13–14) [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2020 This paper deals with the image of frog in the Commentary on the Book of Revelation by Tyconius the African (Tyconius Africanus), the Christian exegete of the 4thcentury. In his Commentary on Rev 16.
Elizaveta Materova
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Teaching monastic masculinity with the Colloquy of Ælfric of Eynsham
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 629-649, November 2023., 2023 I focus on the Colloquy of Ælfric of Eynsham to show how it contributed to gender formation by teaching boys not only Latin, but also what it meant to be a man of the monastery. I discuss how the professions the boys role‐played encouraged them to think of the monk as the most masculine option, and how verbal experimentation allowed their violent ...
Maroula Perisanidi
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Marine Mammal Science, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 830-841, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Trap feeding and tread‐water feeding are cetacean hunting strategies first recorded in the 2000s in two whale species at opposite sides of the globe. In both behaviors, whales sit motionless at the surface with their mouths open. Fish are attracted into the whale's mouth and are trapped when the jaw is closed.
John McCarthy, Erin Sebo, Matthew Firth
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Ecclesiological aspects of the image of locusts (Rev. 9) in the commentaries of latin exegetes of the 4th — 6th centuries [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2021 The paper deals with the interpretation of the image of locusts, which belongs to the so-called demonic bestiary in the Apocalypse, and its interpretation in the Latin patristic commentaries by Ticonius the African (4th c.) and his two successors ...
Elizaveta Materova
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Literalising Metaphor in the Poetry of Robert Southwell☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 75-91, February 2023., 2023 Abstract This article focuses on a distinctive feature of Robert Southwell's poetic technique, namely, his approach to metaphor. I argue that a number of Southwell's metaphors have a surprisingly literal quality where their vehicles are given greater prominence than their tenors.
Conor McKee
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Medievalista, 2021 In this paper, I investigate the relationship between the text and the images in medieval Latin bestiary manuscripts. Medieval bestiaries, which are derived from the ancient Physiologus, comprise a nearly 1800-year-old tradition and have spawned several ...
Ilya Dines
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Le Physiologus grec: 1. La réécriture de l’histoire naturelle antique by Stavros Lazaris
Aestimatio, 2021 : The Greek Physiologus is an early Christian collection of some 40 shortchapters on animals (and a few plants and stones), each describing the appearance and the properties of the creature and disclosing its theological or moral sense.
Baudouin Van den Abeele
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The ancient egyptian roots of the image of the panther in the alexandrian Physiologus [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2019 The purpose of this study is to trace the Old Egyptian roots of the Panther’s figure, symbolising the Saviour in the zoological mystery play Physiologus created in Egyptian Alexandria. Taking into account the opinion expressed in the literature about the
Eleonora Kormysheva
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Ascenso y caída de las bestias: evolución de la alegoría animal en la Edad Media
Medievalista, 2021 Most of the history of medieval thought was influenced by Platonism and the reworkings that the Latin and Greek Fathers made of Plato's doctrines. The worldview resulting from this thought considered that each manifestation of the sensible world, while ...
Claudia Inés Raposo
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Aesthetics of Evil in Middle Ages: Beasts as Symbol of the Devil
Religions, 2021 Since the very origin of art, human beings have faced the challenge of the representation of Evil. Within the medieval Christian context, we may find many beings which have attempted to convey the power of the devil.
Ricardo Piñero Moral
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