This wide ranging cultural history traces the remarkable interpretations and myths that have grown up around the unicorn in art, science, religion, and literature. - [Publisher]

Chapters include: The Unicorn and the Orient; The Classical Inheritance; Biblical Texts; Physiologus; Pictorial Art in the Middle Ages; The Unicorn and the Huntsmen; The Unicorn of the Troubadors; The Flemish Tapestries; The Lady with the Unicorn; etc.

192 pp., color and black and white illustrations on almost every pages, bibliography, index.

Language: English

ISBN: 0-7892-0595-5