商品簡介
Stretching from the Middle Ages to Modern Times and including sholars like Albertus Magnus, Conrad Gessner, and even Georges Buffon and Carl of Linne, this book offers a wideranging survey of the theological, medical and zoological discussions devoted to hybride creatures such as mermaids, fauns, dragons, giants and dwarfs.
作者簡介
Bernd Roling, Ph.D. (2002) in Medieval and Neo-Latin, University of Munster, Lecturer for Medieval Philosophy at the Thomas-Institute, University of Cologne. He has published on Latin poetry of the Middle Ages, history of early modern universities, the philosophy of the Renaissance, and medieval philosophy of language (Locutio angelica. Die Diskussion der Engelsprache in Mittelalter und Fruher Neuzeit als Antizipation einer Sprechakttheorie [Brill, 2008]).
