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Bestiary

A bestiary (Latin: bestiarium vocabulum) is a compendium of beasts. Originating in the ancient world, bestiaries were made popular in the Middle Ages in illustrated volumes that described various animals and even rocks. The natural history and illustration of each beast was usually accompanied by a moral lesson. This reflected the belief that the world…

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Bestiary

Nodes79
Edges78
Triples130
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.025316
Components1

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related to Modern bestiaries · 37
Bestiary → Barely Imagined Beings, Beasts, Bible, Book, Caspar Henderson's The Book, Century Bestiary, Chicago Press, Creatures, Dial, Dragon Quest, Dragons, Dungeons, Eastern Christian Publications, Florida, Granta, Henri, Imaginary Beings, In, In July, John Henry Fleming's Fearsome
related to External links · 29
Bestiary → Aberdeen, Anne Walshe, Beasts, Bestiairy, Bibliothèque, Cambridge University, Christian, David Badke, Denmark, English, Exhibition, Fabulous Creatures, FranceChristian Symbology Animals, French, Greek Myth, Legend, Madison, Monsters, National Library, Philippe
related to history · 25
Bestiary → Aelian, Aristotle's Historia Animalium, Bible, Book XII, Elder, Etymologiae, Europe, Following, God, Greek, Greeks, Herodotus, Medieval Christians, Middle Ages, Much, Nevertheless, Physiologus, Pliny, Saint Ambrose, Saint Isidore
related to Religious significance · 11
Bestiary → All, CE, Egypt, Greece, In, Satanic, The, The Physiologus, These, With, Zeus
related to Bestiary content · 7
Bestiary → Christian, Descriptions, For, Medieval, Physiologus, The, Western Europe

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bestiaries animals medieval creatures meaning beasts world modern also book often found well animal ancient middle ages moral christian religious

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Aristotle's Historia Animaliuminstance ofwhich itself summarized ancient knowledge and wisdom about animals in the writings of classical authors0.80text
various works by Herodotusinstance ofwhich itself summarized ancient knowledge and wisdom about animals in the writings of classical authors0.80text
Pliny the Elderinstance ofwhich itself summarized ancient knowledge and wisdom about animals in the writings of classical authors0.80text
Solinusinstance ofwhich itself summarized ancient knowledge and wisdom about animals in the writings of classical authors0.80text
Aelianinstance ofwhich itself summarized ancient knowledge and wisdom about animals in the writings of classical authors0.80text
other naturalists.Following the Physiologusinstance ofwhich itself summarized ancient knowledge and wisdom about animals in the writings of classical authors0.80text
Saint Isidore of Sevilleinstance ofwhich itself summarized ancient knowledge and wisdom about animals in the writings of classical authors0.80text
dragonsinstance ofDescriptions of creatures0.80text
unicornsinstance ofDescriptions of creatures0.80text
basiliskinstance ofDescriptions of creatures0.80text
griffininstance ofDescriptions of creatures0.80text
caladrius were common in such worksinstance ofDescriptions of creatures0.80text

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