Giants in Those Days: Folklore, Ancient History, and NationalismUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1989 - 456 pages "'Traditional' (i.e. medieval) gigantology, both scholarly and - to the extent that it existed - popular, was rooted in biblical and classical texts, and portrayed giants as depraved, evil, and godless: very different from what we see in Rabelais. Dante developed them as denizens of Hell. Giants were primarily antediluvian, and were generally understood as a race distinct from (or debased from) humanity. Key biblical giants included the nephilim (offspring of the 'sons of God and daughters of men' in Genesis 6) and the anakim (indigenous opposition to the settlement of Canaan in Numbers and Deuteronomy). |
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... Jean Lemaire de Belges , and in the works of a few eccentric later gigantologists , were Annius's ideas circulated and discussed.73 The Genealogical Imperative Like his other solutions to exegetical cruxes ... Jean Lemaire de Belges.
... Jean Lemaire de Belges , and in the works of a few eccentric later gigantologists , were Annius's ideas circulated and discussed.73 The Genealogical Imperative Like his other solutions to exegetical cruxes ... Jean Lemaire de Belges.
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... century - long succès de librairie . Pierre Jodogne has shown in considerable detail how Lemaire's Illustrations relate to the history of Franco - Italian cultural relations 143 Jean Lemaire and Gallic Patriotism as described by Franco.
... century - long succès de librairie . Pierre Jodogne has shown in considerable detail how Lemaire's Illustrations relate to the history of Franco - Italian cultural relations 143 Jean Lemaire and Gallic Patriotism as described by Franco.
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... Jean Picard , who declared in the Celtopaedia that the true Etruscans and Umbri were no people of Italy , but the offspring of the most ancient Noachian Gauls , who were ... Jean Lemaire and Gallic Patriotism almost lost their rightful.
... Jean Picard , who declared in the Celtopaedia that the true Etruscans and Umbri were no people of Italy , but the offspring of the most ancient Noachian Gauls , who were ... Jean Lemaire and Gallic Patriotism almost lost their rightful.
Contents
Annius of Viterbo the Flood | 98 |
4 | 116 |
Rabelaiss Two Gigantologies | 185 |
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