The Bear: History of a Fallen King

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.

• | Author: Michel Pastoureau, George Holoch
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 17, 2011
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• | Language: eng
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780674047822
• | ISBN-10: 0674047826