Holy Dogs and Asses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Holy Dogs and Asses write by Laura Hobgood-Oster. This book was released on 2008. Holy Dogs and Asses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recognizing animals in the Christian tradition
Holy Dogs and Asses
Holy Dogs and Asses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Holy Dogs and Asses write by Laura Hobgood-Oster. This book was released on 2001. Holy Dogs and Asses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Donkey King
The Donkey King - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Donkey King write by Emily Selove. This book was released on 2023-12-21. The Donkey King available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 13th-century Arabic grimoire, al-Sakkākī's Kitāb al-Shāmil (Book of the Complete), provides numerous methods of contacting jinn. The first such jinn described, Abū Isrā'īl Būzayn ibn Sulaymān, arrives with a donkey. In the course of offering an explanation for his ritual, this Element reveals the double-sided nature of asinine symbology, and explains why this animal has served as the companion of both demons and prophets. Focusing on two nodes of donkey symbology—the phallus and the bray-it reveals a coincidentia oppositorum in a deceptively humble and comic animal form. Thus, the donkey, bearer of a demonic voice, and of a phallus symbolic of base materiality, also represents transcendence of the material and protection from the demonic. In addition to Arabic literature and occult rituals, the Element refers to evidence from the ancient Near East, Egypt, and Greece, as well as to medieval Jewish and Christian texts.
Amazing Dogs
Amazing Dogs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Amazing Dogs write by Jan Bondeson. This book was released on 2011-03-15. Amazing Dogs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Amazing Dogs tells the stories of some of the most extraordinary dogs in history.
Introducing the Medieval Ass
Introducing the Medieval Ass - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Introducing the Medieval Ass write by Kathryn L. Smithies. This book was released on 2020-09-01. Introducing the Medieval Ass available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first book dedicated to the medieval ass It appeals to a multi-Audience: interested lay readership; accessible, introductory and undergraduate level book; scholar This book explains how the medieval ass was an arse, an idiot, a violent hot-tempered sexed-up brute that ate the balls of its own male offspring. Conversely, the ass was also a humble, patient, loyal, hard-working Christian animal (marked with a cross) that Christ rode into Jerusalem. These paradoxical qualities are explored in this book and open up a wealth of information on how people in the Middle Ages viewed the ass, not just as a simple beast of burden, but also as a figure to warn and to educate, to expose human failings and praise the divine. Introducing the Medieval Ass reveals medieval attitudes to animals, to people, and to the divine, making it an excellent way to approach medieval cultural and animal studies.
