The wisdom of animals
Subtitle: creatureliness in early modern French spirituality
By: Catharine Randall
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Notre Dame
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780268040352
Subjects: Animals; Spiritualität; Christentum; Tiere; Animals (Philosophy); Criticism and interpretation; Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: animals and authority; title: Sixteenth-century animal avatars in Montaigne and his contemporaries; title: Job's horse and other creatures: animal analogies in Du Bartas's Protestant poetics; title: The fauna of faith: animating spirituality; title: Le père Bougeant's heresy: animal societies, languages, and souls; title: Conclusion: faith in fauna.