Subject: | | Re: Lion symbolism (More!) |
From: | | Bill East <[log in to unmask]> |
Reply-To: | | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 9 Aug 2000 10:47:11 -0500680_us-ascii On born-to-be-saints, John Kitchen, in Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender (Oxford UP, 1998) - a book with which I have some serious quarrels - does a very nice job of contrasting Venantius Fortunatus's portrayal of born-to-be saints with Gregory of Tours's portrayals of saints-despite-themselves, cranky and rude characters, rough around the edges, who nonetheless achieve sanctity. There are many hagiographies in which the saint exhibits saintly qualities from an early age (Boniface, for example, began to consider the advantages of the monastic life at the age of four), I can't recall any that involve prophecies or omens, though [...]40_9Aug200010:47:[log in to unmask] |
Date: | | Wed, 9 Aug 2000 10:49:10 +0100 (BST) |
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> I searched resources (bestiaries, reproductions of Judgment images,
> emblem
> books) at Yale's Beinecke, Sterling, and Art/Architecture libraries,
> but
> couldn't find medieval or patristic analogues for the lion AND the
> dragon
> restrained beside Christ at the Last Judgment. Am aware of scriptural
>
> allusions to lion as satanic, of course (1 Pt. 5:8; Daniel in the
> den; Ps
> 91:13) Any suggestions?
Surely the association is made in the text you mention, Ps. 91:13,
You will tread on lion and adder,
Trample on savage lions and dragons. [JB]
Oriens.
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