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Hardcover The Bear: History of a Fallen King [French] Book
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ISBN: 0674047826

ISBN13: 9780674047822

The Bear: History of a Fallen King [French]

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The oldest discovered statue, fashioned some fifteen to twenty thousand years ago, is of a bear. The lion was not always king. From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear's centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages, literatures, and legends from the Slavic East to Celtic Britain. Historian Michel Pastoureau considers how this once venerated creature was deposed by the advent of Christianity and continued to sink lower...

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