IMHICIHU   13380
INSTITUTO MULTIDISCIPLINARIO DE HISTORIA Y CIENCIAS HUMANAS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Slavs and Dogs: Depiction of Slavs in Central European Sources From the 10th-11th Centuries
Autor/es:
NEYRA, ANDREA VANINA
Revista:
Medium Aevum Quotidianum
Editorial:
Gesellschaft zur Erforschung der materiellen Kultur des Mittelalter
Referencias:
Lugar: Krems; Año: 2014 vol. 69 p. 5 - 24
ISSN:
1029-0737
Resumen:
Over the past few years there has been an increasing interest in the animal world in the humanities. This attention has been directed towards several aspects: economical, legal, cultural, symbolical. Some medieval literary genres ?such as bestiaries and hagiography? devoted particular attention to animals and their symbolism, although in different levels. This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of the relationship between the depiction of animals and the construction of identities in Central European sources from the 10th to 11th centuries. Our interest focuses on a selection of chronics, passions of martyrs and lives of saints related to the Christianization of Central Europe and the characterization of Slavs as dogs, with the goal of contextualizing those textual references and explaining the use of such image.