372 Dragons! (with Scott G. Bruce)
The History of Literature
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The Origins of Dinosaurs in the Middle Ages
The rise of dragons in our european centred culture, as you say, it does sort of coincide with this rise of christianity. And in facte for christians, the dragons ofn were just perfect because theyJust tey, tey, sit right into their world view. They were, you know, a kind of large and imposing and terrifying personification of that, kind of, invisible enemy they liked to call the devil. In early modern asia, bones that were thought to be the bones of dragons, but were probably dinosor bones, which where believed to have a very strong medicinal value.
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