Giants in Those Days: Folklore, Ancient History, and NationalismUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1989 - 456 páginas "'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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... The Poems of John Milton , 863-64 ( 9.129-34 ) , 902 ( 9.782-84 ) , 913-14 ( 9.1000-1004 ) , 959-64 ( 10.651-719 ) . Conti says ( Mythologiae 1616 , p . 371 ) that according to the Greeks , Giants were born with the earliest men ( “ cum ...
... The Poems of John Milton , 863-64 ( 9.129-34 ) , 902 ( 9.782-84 ) , 913-14 ( 9.1000-1004 ) , 959-64 ( 10.651-719 ) . Conti says ( Mythologiae 1616 , p . 371 ) that according to the Greeks , Giants were born with the earliest men ( “ cum ...
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... The Poems of John Milton . Ed . John Carey and Alastair Fowler . Longman Annotated English Poets . London : Longmans , 1968 . Mombrizio , Bonino [ Boninus Mombritius ] . Sanctuarium seu Vitae Sancto- rum . Ed . " Two Monks of Solesmes ...
... The Poems of John Milton . Ed . John Carey and Alastair Fowler . Longman Annotated English Poets . London : Longmans , 1968 . Mombrizio , Bonino [ Boninus Mombritius ] . Sanctuarium seu Vitae Sancto- rum . Ed . " Two Monks of Solesmes ...
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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 Vista de fragmentos - 1989 |
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