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... writers in the Middle Ages and even in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . Three works much read and apparently of considerable influence upon medieval writers are the Physiologus , a symbolic bestiary ( probably stemming from a ...
... writers in the Middle Ages and even in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . Three works much read and apparently of considerable influence upon medieval writers are the Physiologus , a symbolic bestiary ( probably stemming from a ...
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... writers on natural history and writers in general followed an- cient authorities , particularly Aristotle and Pliny , without question- ing the accuracy of these men's information . Hence a great many erroneous and fantastic ideas were ...
... writers on natural history and writers in general followed an- cient authorities , particularly Aristotle and Pliny , without question- ing the accuracy of these men's information . Hence a great many erroneous and fantastic ideas were ...
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... writers ' employment of animal conventions , the importance of the precedents established by the almost universal use of ... writing of the period 1550-1600 . If all the conventional ideas about animals were taken out of the Elizabethan ...
... writers ' employment of animal conventions , the importance of the precedents established by the almost universal use of ... writing of the period 1550-1600 . If all the conventional ideas about animals were taken out of the Elizabethan ...
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