Release date: 06.2023
Format : Grand Format
Number of pages :
Abstract: For a long time historians did not think of animals. But think about it a little and their importance emerges, grows, imposes itself. They are everywhere. Nothing that humans have done in their history has been done without them, promoted in all civilizations and up to the present day. Fifteen historians, including Robert Delort, Daniel Roche, Michel Pastoureau and Jean-Marc Moriceau, explain to us how horses were domesticated or how rats entered Paris. We also discover the saga of the dog, the role of the dromedary in the settlement of the great desert of North Africa or the extravagant animal trials in the 16th century. We learn to what extent, in the Middle Ages, texts, images and folklore are populated by animals, and we finally wonder about the proximity of man and pig since Antiquity. Thanks to the texts brought together in this edition and tasty anecdotes, Eric Baratay reveals to us how humans have been fascinated by animals and how they have tamed each other.
2023-08-12 02:11:47
#Animals #story #Eric #Baratay
