...for my purpose it suffices, ... to emphasize that natural history in general and zoology, with which I am primarily concerned here, have in particular throughout most of the Middle Ages stood almost exclusively in the service of the symbolic world view of Christianity. The animal symbolism in the Bible ... gave the most immediate and strongest stimulus to that mystical-symbolic or moralizing character of Medieval Zoology. - [Author]

404 pp., index.

Language: German