The Mark of the Beast
Subtitle: The Medieval Bestiary in Art, Life, and Literature (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780815329527
Subjects: Christianity; Folklore; History of art: c 500 CE to c 1400; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Special Subjects In Art; History and criticism; Special Subjects In Literature; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Medieval; Art; Literature, Medieval; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Bestiaries; General; Animals, Mythical, in literatu; Didactic literature, Latin (Me; Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
First sentence: The lion is the most ubiquitous of the bestiary animals, and is also one of the relatively few to carry strong associations beyond the bestiary, especially in medieval heraldry.