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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Annius of Viterbo the Flood | 98 |
4 | 116 |
Rabelaiss Two Gigantologies | 185 |
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Giants in Those Days: Folklore, Ancient History, and Nationalism Walter Stephens Affichage d'extraits - 1989 |
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