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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... editions . It is more likely that , as a printer , Bade would have known of these earlier editions , if not of the princeps itself , independently of Lemaire . It is even possible that , if Lemaire and Bade were indeed acquainted in the ...
... editions . It is more likely that , as a printer , Bade would have known of these earlier editions , if not of the princeps itself , independently of Lemaire . It is even possible that , if Lemaire and Bade were indeed acquainted in the ...
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... editions and nu- merous partial editions of Lemaire's Illustrations . The ranks of Lemaire's imitators were expanding rapidly by 1532 , and , more important still , there are biographical indications that several of these authors were ...
... editions and nu- merous partial editions of Lemaire's Illustrations . The ranks of Lemaire's imitators were expanding rapidly by 1532 , and , more important still , there are biographical indications that several of these authors were ...
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... editions of Annius , and is either ignorant of , or discounts the influence of , the texts - only editions of 1509-11 . In his preface to the Marnef edition ( May 1510 ) , Geoffroy Tory states that “ a number " of his friends begged him ...
... editions of Annius , and is either ignorant of , or discounts the influence of , the texts - only editions of 1509-11 . In his preface to the Marnef edition ( May 1510 ) , Geoffroy Tory states that “ a number " of his friends begged him ...
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Annius of Viterbo the Flood | 98 |
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Rabelaiss Two Gigantologies | 185 |
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