Humans and Other Animals in the Middle Ages : An Introduction and Reader /

Humans and Other Animals in the Middle Ages : An Introduction and Reader /

This sourcebook serves both as an introduction and a wide-ranging reference work for human attitudes to nonhuman animals in Latin Europe during the Middle Ages. Under twelve headings, it includes numerous translated passages from Latin and vernacular texts that reflect human conceptions and uses of...

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Main Author: Line, Philip (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Explorations in Medieval Culture ; 27.
Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.

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Biblical Studies.
History of Medicine.

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Call Number: BS709.4

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Table of Contents:
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction
  •  1 Notes
  • 1 The Genesis of the Animals
  •  1 The Medieval Conception of the Biblical Creation
  •  2 The Naming of the Animals
  •  3 Animals Wild and Tame
  • 2 Animals in Medieval Natural Philosophy
  •  1 Defining the Animal
  •  2 Categorizing Animals
  •  3 Animals in the scala naturae
  •  4 Human and Nonhuman Souls and Their Faculties
  •  5 Animal Society
  • 3 Animals as Exemplars
  •  1 Animals as Didactic Tools
  •  2 The Symmetry of Nature
  •  3 Physiologus and the Bestiaries
  •  4 The Medieval Encyclopaedia of Nature
  •  5 Animals in Homilies and Sermons
  •  6 Physiognomy
  •  7 Symbols of Ferocity, Valour and Lineage
  •  8 Animal Behaviour as Portents
  • 4 Animals in Field, Park, and Forest
  •  1 Animal Husbandry
  •  2 The Lot of the Working Animal
  •  3 Foresta and Parks
  • 5 Hunting
  •  1 Defining the Medieval Hunt
  •  2 Quarry Animals
  •  3 Animals Who Assisted in the Hunt
  •  4 Medieval Conservation?
  •  5 Hunting of Rival Predators
  •  6 Illegal Hunting
  •  7 Criticism of Hunting
  • 6 Animals and Law
  •  1 Natural Law
  •  2 Animals in the 'Laws of the Barbarians'
  •  3 Animals in High Medieval Law
  •  4 Human Ownership of Animals and the Right to Hunt Them
  •  5 Trials, Execution and Cursing of Nonhuman Animals
  •  6 Execution of Animals for Involvement in Bestiality
  • 7 Beast-Humans and Human Beasts
  •  1 Monstrous Beings, Monstrous Races
  •  2 Metamorphosis
  •  3 Zoophilia
  •  4 Offspring of Human-Beast Unions
  •  5 Humans Acting Beasts
  •  6 Humans Compared to Beasts
  •  7 Beasts Representing Humans
  • 8 Animals as Food
  •  1 Eating as Differentiator of Humans from Other Animals
  •  2 The Old Law Dietary Restrictions in Christianity
  •  3 Cultural Taboos
  •  4 Meat-Eating, Lust and Gluttony
  •  5 Meat for the Starving
  •  6 Human Meat, Animal Meat
  •  7 Animals in the Human Diet
  •  8 Entertaining Meals
  •  9 Food Waste Management
  •  10 Animal Fast Food
  • 9 Animals, Disease and Medicine
  •  1 Animals as Sources of Medicinal Cures or Causes of Injury and Disease
  •  2 Care of Domesticated Animals
  •  3 Animal Self-Help
  •  4 Animals as Medical Metaphors
  •  5 Epidemics among Domestic Animals and the Human Perception of Them
  • 10 Animals and Saints
  • 11 Animals for Show and Companionship
  •  1 Menageries
  •  2 Animals as Companions to Humans
  •  3 Animals in the Cloister
  •  4 Pets of the Secular Aristocracy
  •  5 Naming Household Animals
  •  6 Animals Punished as Surrogates for Human Owners
  •  7 Animals for Entertainment
  • 12 Animals at War
  •  1 Warlike Animals?
  •  2 The Warhorse
  •  3 Other Animals in Battle
  •  4 Feeding the 'Beasts of Battle'
  •  5 Animal Messengers
  •  6 Animal Attrition: on the March, in Camp and in Sieges
  •  7 Animals Stolen and Slaughtered
  • Quoted Authors
  • Bibliography of Works from Which Passages Are Quoted
  • Figures
  • Index.