Bestiaires du Moyen Age. Celte Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss

in Antiquity as in our own day

Et si notre instinct de la langue et l’amour des étymologies donnaient le pouvoir de changer le monde

palaces and necropolises

Bestiaires du Moyen Age. Celte Claude Lévi-StraussThe deer lives for a thousand years. The wild boar carries its horns in its mouth. Butterflies are flying flowers. The squirrel is a diabolical, lazy, lecherous, and greedy animal. Medieval zoology is not modern zoology. Many notions that are familiar to us today were unknown at the time. The Middle Ages were very talkative about animals. In this regard, the illuminated bestiaries, born during the High Middle Ages but whose popularity reached its peak