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Stories about dragons, serpents, and their slayers make up a rich and varied tradition within ancient mythology and folklore. In this sourcebook, Daniel Ogden presents a comprehensive and easily accessible collection of dragon myths from Greek, Roman, and early Christian sources. Some of the dragons featured are well known: the Hydra, slain by Heracles; the Dragon of Colchis, the guardian of the golden fleece overcome by Jason and Medea; and the great sea-serpent from which Perseus rescues Andromeda. But the less well known dragons are often equally enthralling, like the Dragon of Thespiae, which Menestratus slays by feeding himself to it in armor covered in fish-hooks, or the lamias of Libya, who entice young men into their striking-range by wiggling their tails, shaped like beautiful women, at them. The texts are arranged in such a way as to allow readers to witness the continuity of and evolution in dragon stories between the Classical and Christian worlds, and to understand the genesis of saintly dragon-slaying stories of the sort now characteristically associated with St George, whose earliest dragon-fight concludes the volume. All texts, a considerable number of which have not previously been available in English, are offered in new translations and accompanied by lucid commentaries that place the source-passages into their mythical, folkloric, literary, and cultural contexts. A sampling of the ancient iconography of dragons and an appendix on dragon slaying myths from the ancient Near East and India, particularly those with a bearing upon the Greco-Roman material, are also included. This volume promises to be the most authoritative sourcebook on this perennially fascinating and influential body of ancient myth.

Folklore --- Comparative religion --- Dragons --- Dragons in the Bible. --- Mythology, Classical. --- Religious aspects. --- Dragons in the Bible --- Mythology, Classical --- Religious aspects --- Dragons - Folklore --- Dragons - Religious aspects --- Dragon --- Serpents

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The heart is an iconic symbol in the medieval and early modern European world. In addition to being a physical organ, it is a key conceptual device related to emotions, cognition, the self and identity, and the body. The heart is read as a metaphor for human desire and will, and situated in opposition to or alongside reason and cognition. In medieval and early modern Europe, the "feeling heart" - the heart as the site of emotion and emotional practices - informed a broad range of art, literature, music, heraldry, medical texts, and devotional and ritual practices. This multidisciplinary collection brings together art historians, literary scholars, historians, theologians, and musicologists to highlight the range of meanings attached to the symbol of the heart, the relationship between physical and metaphorical representations of the heart, and the uses of the heart in the production of identities and communities in medieval and early modern Europe.

Iconography --- Thematology --- emotion --- symbolism [artistic concept] --- hearts [motifs] --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1500-1799 --- Europe --- Heart --- Heart in literature --- Heart (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) --- Religious aspects --- E-books --- Heart in literature. --- Religious aspects.

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Christian religion --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Christian women --- Women --- Women and religion --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Religious life --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Religion and women --- Women in religion --- Religion --- Sexism in religion --- Women, Christian --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Woman (Christian theology) --- Christian women - Netherlands - Biography --- Women - Netherlands - Biography --- Women - Religious aspects - Christianity --- Women - Religious life - Netherlands --- Women and religion - Netherlands

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Das Christentum nimmt zur materiellen Kultur eine ambivalente Haltung ein. Einerseits schöpft es sein Selbstverständnis aus der Ablehnung oder Domestizierung idolatrischer Praktiken, andererseits greift es in vielfältiger Weise auf einen Kult der Dinge zurück. In exemplarischen Untersuchungen der christlichen Dingkultur vom Spätmittelalter bis ins 19. Jahrhundert behandelt Laube jene Räume und Praktiken, die ein Nahverhältnis von Mensch und Ding herstellen. Ohne die unmittelbare Anmutung der Dinge sind weder die im Kirchenraum ausgestellten Exotika noch die eklektisch gestalteten Reliquiare in den Heiltumssammlungen denkbar. Die frühmoderne Wissenschaftsauffassung verdichtete sich im Kabinett, wo gesammelte Gegenstände in epiphanischen Momenten des Sehens und Berührens erfahren werden konnten.

Relics --- Religious articles --- Cabinets of curiosities --- Museums --- Cabinets of wonder --- Curiosities, Cabinets of --- Curiosity cabinets --- Kunst-und Wunderkammern --- Kunstkammern --- Kunstkammers --- Kunstschränke --- Wunderkammern --- Collectors and collecting --- Articles, Religious --- Objects, Religious --- Religious art objects --- Religious goods --- Religious objects --- Sacred objects --- Religion --- Relics and reliquaries --- Bones --- History. --- Religious aspects. --- Christian religion --- History of civilization --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Relics - History --- Religious articles - History --- Cabinets of curiosities - History --- Museums - Religious aspects --- Reliques --- Reliquaires --- History --- Religious aspects

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Senses and sensation in art --- Philosophy of nature --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Aesthetics of art --- Senses and sensation --- Sex differences --- History --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History. --- Senses and sensation - Sex differences - History. --- Senses and sensation - Religious aspects - Christianity - History. --- Senses and sensation in art - History. --- Sensation --- Sensory biology --- Sensory systems --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Christianity&delete& --- Sex differences&delete& --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Neurophysiology --- Psychophysiology --- Perception --- Senses and sensation - Sex differences - History --- Senses and sensation - Religious aspects - Christianity - History --- Senses and sensation in art - History