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Anna Vivanti Salmon

    The Street of Crocodiles
    The Medieval Imagination
    • In November 1942, Bruno Schulz, teacher of drawing and handicrafts at a boys' college in Drohobycz, was shot dead by a Gestapo officer as he brought home a loaf of bread.

      The Street of Crocodiles2001
      3,7
    • The Medieval Imagination

      • 302 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      The collection begins with an essay on 'the marvelous.' Le Goff highlights subtle changes in medieval attitudes and sensibilities by contrasting the marvelous (representing a 'secularization' of the supernatural after the thirteenth century) with the miraculous (depending solely on God's saving grace) and the magical (governed by Satan's destructive activity).

      The Medieval Imagination1998
      3,7