>. Lipton's excellent article analyses
> images in the Bible MOralisee for how visual associations between
> heretics, Jews and cats are deployed.
>
> cheers
> john arnold
>
I seem to remember that the traditional image for a heretic in the
Middle Ages is a fox, not a cat. This alluding to the Song of Songs
(SoS 2, 15, "Catch the foxes .. the despoilers of vineyards") and
Judges 15, 4, where foxes are tied tail to tail ... This is one of
the earliest conspiracy theories I can think of, to assume that
actually all heresy was somehow connected.
Frans van Liere
Calvin College
3201 Burton Street SE
Grand Rapids MI 49546
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/history/fvliere.htm
tel. (616) 957-6535
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