From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear’s centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages, literatures, and legends. Michel Pastoureau considers how this once venerated creature was deposed by Christianity and continued to sink lower in the symbolic bestiary before rising again in Pyrrhic triumph as the teddy bear.


Format Inbunden Omfång 384 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Harvard University Press Utgivningsdatum 2011-10-17 ISBN 9780674047822