Fabulous animals atmosphere
In the West, no other period that the Middle Ages which covers a millennium approached and has staged as much animal. It is discovered in church decorations and even architectural manuscripts such as Villard de Honnecourt's one where the dragon is the letter S. The medieval culture is curious of the animal; two schools of thought can be distinguished:
- the first, minor and inherited from Aristote considers a true community of living things, man and animal.
- A second, dominating, for which the man in the image of God is opposed to the animal, imperfect and subject. Which is why the animal has been so often narrated, embellished, interfered at the heart of all the metaphors and in a constant behavioral comparisons with man. The animal is sometimes invented to increase the imaginary fears, or simply exaggerated because it is presented orally approximately. The medieval bestiaries, real mixture of fantasy, show examples of the most fabulous animals.
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