The Desert Fathers' Beasts: Crocodiles in Medieval German Monastic Literature
This paper explores the literary representations of one of the most terrifying animals in the medieval imagination, the crocodile, in two monastic texts written in the German vernacular (Väterbuch, Alemannische Vitaspatrum). The literary figure of the crocodile in these religious texts combines anci...
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University of Milan
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures |
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| Online Access: | https://riviste.unimi.it/interfaces/article/view/9625 |