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Review of Salvador-Bello, Mercedes. 2024. The History of the Physiologus in Early Medieval England. Turnhout: Brepols. Pp. 453. ISBN 9782503598406.
Megan Cavell
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The Hyena's Cave: 'Jeremiah' 12.9 in Premodern Bestiaries
The premodern bestiary tradition portrays the hyena as a creature that annually changes its sex. While the Greek Physiologus interprets it as an allegory of sexual aberration, the various versions of the Latin Physiologus read it as a symbol for ...
Andreas Kraß
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La tradición de los bestiarios franceses y su influencia en la Península Ibérica
Resumen Este trabajo pretende realizar, en primer lugar, una descripción de los textos de los bestiarios conservados en francés en verso y en prosa, éstos últimos tanto de temática moral como amorosa.
Llúcia Martín Pascual
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Role of Exercise in Vascular Function and Inflammatory Profile in Age‐Related Obesity
In western countries, aging is often accompanied by obesity and age‐related obesity is characterized by vascular dysfunction and a low‐grade inflammatory profile. Exercise is a nonpharmacological strategy able to decrease the development and incidence of risk factors for several health‐threatening diseases. Nonetheless, its long‐term effect on vascular
Anna Pedrinolla +10 more
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This article investigates the 'allegorical hunt of the unicorn' in late medieval visual and narrative art. The existence of the unicorn in biblical lore is an important factor in how the unicorn has been integrated into Christian symbolism.
Julia Weitbrecht
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El Lucidario es un diálogo entre un maestro y su discípulo compuesto bajo el auspicio de Sancho IV de Castilla entre 1293 y 1295. Escrito siguiendo la tradición escolástica de la literatura de quaestiones, el tratado dedica cerca de un tercio de sus 100 ...
Mario Cossío Olavide
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DER ANGELSÄCHSISCHE PHYSIOLOGUS. [PDF]
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I, monster: queerness and the Liber Monstrorum in early medieval St Gall
This article analyses a ninth‐century copy of the Liber monstrorum from St Gall in which the first monster, a ‘human of both sexes’, speaks in the first person. The scribe also put the Liber monstrorum into dialogue with Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae, in which Isidore argued that monsters were not ‘contrary to nature’.
Michael Eber
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Spreading Bulgarian medieval manuscripts with Natural Science content in Wallachia and Moldavia [PDF]
Bulgarian medieval Philosophy and Natural Sciences were of great significance for the development of the natural sciences of the Orthodox Slavs and in the Balkan countries: Serbia, Russia, Wallachia and Moldova.
Tsvetana Cholova
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Митът за феникса в православнославянската литературна традиция. Съдържание и интерпретации
The myth of the phoenix in Orthodox Slavic literary tradition. Symbolism and interpretation Like the majority of medieval literature, the myth of the phoenix entered the Orthodox Slavic world through translations of Byzantine works.
Ana Stoykova
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