Rapax inuenti auaricia ridet: the animalization of greed in Bruno of Querfurt's Vita quinque fratrum

Animalization is a characteristic of disqualification of the infidel Slav in the sources of the Christianization Age in Central Europe. The “Slavic dog” is repeatedly qualified as greedy. This paper discusses the role of greed in the identification of the infidel as well as of the impious Slav with...

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Autor principal: Neyra, Andrea Vanina
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Publicado: Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/AcHAM/article/view/3626
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Sumario:Animalization is a characteristic of disqualification of the infidel Slav in the sources of the Christianization Age in Central Europe. The “Slavic dog” is repeatedly qualified as greedy. This paper discusses the role of greed in the identification of the infidel as well as of the impious Slav with the further objective of recognizing and widening the number of distinctive features attributed to the other living at the border of the Ottonian Empire by Christian authors.