Pastoureau, Michel
Summary: The oldest discovered statue, fashioned some fifteen to twenty thousand years ago, is of a bear. The lion was not always king. From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear's centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages, literatures, and legends from the Slavic East to Celtic Britain. The author, a historian considers how this once venerated creature was deposed by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2011