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The Beast Within: Animals in the Middle Ages

The Beast Within: Animals in the Middle Ages

Salisbury, Joyce E.

Hardcover

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1032149485
ISBN13: 9781032149486
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 10 2022
Pages: 222
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The third edition of The Beast Within has been updated throughout to include current scholarship, new discussion of definitions, and fresh perspectives on critical animal theory that places animals, rather than humans, at the center of the discourse.

Organized thematically, Salisbury incorporates many new sections and subsections to reveal the multifaceted history of the relationship between humans and animals: domestication, animal diseases and pandemics, dogfights, cockfights, Islamic dietary restrictions, menageries and zoos, and animals as entertainers. To show how modern concerns have been informed by medieval precedents, sections have been expanded to uncover medieval understandings of animal sexuality, animals before the law, and vegetarianism and modern 'fake meat'. The logical narrative concludes with chapters on 'Animals as Humans' and 'Humans as Animals', demonstrating that the lines between humans and animals have become increasingly blurred from the fourth to the twenty-first century.

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