Giants as primordial ancestors in sixteenth-century art and poetry

Early modern art and poetry attest to a widespread and pervasive belief in the existence of giants, not simply as vanquished foes or the villains of myths and fairy tales, but as primordial ancestors. In Northern Europe an imperative to discover origins included the revival and creation of epic poem...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Giants and dwarfs in European art and culture, ca. 1350-1750 / edited by Robin O'Bryan and Felicia Else
1. Verfasser:	Bubenik, Andrea (VerfasserIn)
Pages:	1350-1750
Format:	UnknownFormat
Sprache:	eng
Veröffentlicht:	2024
Schlagworte:	Goltzius, Hendrick > Spenser, Edmund > Nibelungenlied > Geschichte 1500-1700 > Literatur > Mythologie > Kunst > Riese > Deutschland > Niederlande > England
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