Companion Species

This book explores the connection between saints and animals, and how the power over animals has been a characteristic of saints from their beginnings in the Early Church.

Auteur

Mathilde van Dijk teaches History of Christianity at the University of Groningen. She specializes in the history of late medieval reform as well as in the connection between the Middle Ages and popular culture and heritage studies, focusing on the Devotio Moderna, Carthusians, and saints.