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Physiologue --- Bestiaries --- History and criticism. --- Bestiaries. --- Physiologus. --- Bestiaires --- Histoire et critique --- History and criticism
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This book uncovers new material about the ancient Christian work known as the 'Physiologus' and affords new insights into its multilingual transmission and reception. Ten chapters and accompanying new editions of sample texts treat the oldest Greek recension of the 'Physiologus' and its early translations into Latin, Armenian, Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopic, Georgian, Arabic, and Old Slavonic. Produced by a team of specialists in these areas, the book will remain for years to come a 'Physiologus' reference work and a model for dealing with ancient texts transmitted in multiple languages.00The 'Physiologus' is an ancient Christian collection of astonishing stories about animals, stones, and plants that serve as positive or negative models for Christians. Written originally in Greek, the 'Physiologus' was translated in ancient times into Latin, Armenian, Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopic, Georgian, Arabic, and Old Slavonic. Throughout its transformations and adaptations, the 'Physiologus' has never lost its attraction.00The present volume offers an introduction to the significance of the Greek text, a new examination of its manuscript tradition, and a completely revised state of the art for each of the ancient translations. Two chapters of the 'Physiologus', on the pelican and on the panther, are edited in Greek and in each translation. These editions are accompanied by a new English rendering of the edited texts as well as short interpretative essays concerning the two animals.00The volume affords new insights into this fascinating book's diffusion, transmission, and reception over the centuries, from its compositionat the beginning of the third century CE in Alexandria to the end of the Middle Ages, and across all regions of the Byzantine Empire, the Latin West, Egypt and Ethiopia, the Middle East, the Caucasus, and Slavia orthodoxa.
82-191 --- 87.083 --- 87.083 Klassieke literatuur: teksteditie --- Klassieke literatuur: teksteditie --- 82-191 Allegorische poëzie; fabels --- Allegorische poëzie; fabels --- Bestiaries --- Animals --- Zoology --- Early works to 1800. --- Physiologus --- Physiologists --- Transmission des textes. --- Physiologue.
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Voici le premier bestiaire chrétien et le premier bréviaire animal. Il propose à la fois une zoologie spiritualisée et une théologie incarnée dans les bêtes. Esope faisait parler les bêtes en professeurs, le Physiologos les habille en théologiens pour représenter les mystères chrétiens. Mais ici l'animal joue sans masque son propre rôle, et c'est sa nature même qui témoigne des vérités spirituelles. Car, ne nous y trompons pas, les bêtes ne sont ni immorales, ni insensées. Elles ont donc une âme ? Oui, pour la circonstance. Pour la bonne cause : l'édification de l'homme. Dans ce manuel, qui permet de comprendre en profondeur le sens des animaux ceux-ci s'offrent au lecteur comme une pièce de monnaie : pile, il est animal, face, il est le visage d'un des personnages de la dramaturgie chrétienne : Homme, Dieu ou Diable. Ce texte connut au Moyen-Age une popularité comparable à celle de la Bible, au moins jusqu'au XIIIe siècle, comme le prouvent les innombrables manuscrits, versions, traductions et adaptations antiques et médiévales. Il fût visité par tous les auteurs et artistes médiévaux dont il a nourri l'imagination. Le succès immense de ce zoo littéraire à l'usage des Chrétiens est dû en partie à sa brièveté, à sa simplicité apparente et au fait qu'il ne s'adresse pas à des spécialistes de zoologie ni de théologie
Physiologue --- Bestiaire (genre littéraire) --- Animaux --- Bestiaries. --- Didactic literature, Greek --- Animals --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- Translations into French. --- Folklore --- Early works to 1800. --- Bestiaries --- Bestiaires --- Physiologus --- 246.6 --- 246.6 Symbolisme in de christelijke kunst --- Symbolisme in de christelijke kunst --- Greek didactic literature --- Greek literature --- Illustrated books --- Animal kingdom --- Beasts --- Fauna --- Native animals --- Native fauna --- Wild animals --- Wildlife --- Organisms --- Human-animal relationships --- Zoology --- Folklore&delete& --- Early works to 1800 --- Translations into French --- Zoologie --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Christianity. --- Didactic literature, Greek - Translations into French. --- Animals - Folklore - Early works to 1800 --- Bestiaire (genre littéraire)
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