Giants in Those Days: Folklore, Ancient History, and Nationalism"'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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... date . The fact that Gargantua was extremely popular in the south of France , where Celtic monuments were scarce , was for Bourquelot merely a proof that the Romans " were able to overturn the stones erected there by more ancient ...
... date . The fact that Gargantua was extremely popular in the south of France , where Celtic monuments were scarce , was for Bourquelot merely a proof that the Romans " were able to overturn the stones erected there by more ancient ...
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... date could not be documented definitively without arousing suspicion , and so Annius merely " estimated " it by embroi- dering on cryptic statements by real and fictive authors . 25 Yet Annius was supremely indifferent as to when Noah ...
... date could not be documented definitively without arousing suspicion , and so Annius merely " estimated " it by embroi- dering on cryptic statements by real and fictive authors . 25 Yet Annius was supremely indifferent as to when Noah ...
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... date . In " L'Attitude de Rabelais devant le Platonisme et l'Italianisme , " Robert Marichal maintained that Rabelais later reacted against French importation of Italian intellectual and cultural influences , in three chapters of the ...
... date . In " L'Attitude de Rabelais devant le Platonisme et l'Italianisme , " Robert Marichal maintained that Rabelais later reacted against French importation of Italian intellectual and cultural influences , in three chapters of the ...
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Annius of Viterbo the Flood | 98 |
4 | 116 |
Rabelaiss Two Gigantologies | 185 |
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