Patricia Cox Miller is the Bishop W. Earl Ledden Professor of Religion Emerita at Syracuse University. She is author of five books, including The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Introduction
Chapter 1. Animals and Figuration: The Case of Birds
Chapter 2. The Pensivity of Animals, I: Zoomorphism
Chapter 3. The Pensivity of Animals, II: Anthropomorphism
Chapter 4. Wild Animals: Desert Ascetics and Their Companions
Chapter 5. Small Things: The Vibrant Materiality of Tiny Creatures
Afterword
Appendix: Ancient Christian and Other Authors
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgment

Patricia Cox Miller is the Bishop W. Earl Ledden Professor of Religion Emerita at Syracuse University. She is author of five books, including The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.