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Thinking about Animals in Thirteenth-Century Paris - Theologians on the Boundary Between Humans and Animals (Hardcover)
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Thinking about Animals in Thirteenth-Century Paris - Theologians on the Boundary Between Humans and Animals (Hardcover)
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Exploring what theologians at the University of Paris in the
thirteenth century understood about the boundary between humans and
animals, this book demonstrates the great variety of ways in which
they held similarity and difference in productive tension.
Analysing key theological works, Ian P. Wei presents extended close
readings of William of Auvergne, the Summa Halensis, Bonaventure,
Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas. These scholars found it useful
to consider animals and humans together, especially with regard to
animal knowledge and behaviour, when discussing issues including
creation, the fall, divine providence, the heavens, angels and
demons, virtues and passions. While they frequently stressed that
animals had been created for use by humans, and sometimes treated
them as tools employed by God to shape human behaviour, animals
were also analytical tools for the theologians themselves. This
study thus reveals how animals became a crucial resource for
generating knowledge of God and the whole of creation.
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