Beast Within - Animals in the Middle Ages

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.

List of contents

1. Animals as property 2. Animals as food 3. Animal sexuality 4. Animals as Human Exemplars 5. Animals as Humans 6. Humans as Animals 7. What is a human?

About the author

Joyce E. Salisbury is the Frankenthal Professor of History Emerita at the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, USA. She has published widely and is the author of many books including, most recently, Rome's Christian Empress (2015), The History of Spain (2017) and Warriors, Queens, and Intellectuals (2019).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Joyce E. Salisbury, Joyce E. (Professor Emeritus of History Salisbury, Salisbury Joyce E.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.03.2022
• EAN: 9781032149486
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3214948-6
• No. of pages: 222
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; HISTORY / General, HISTORY / World, Social & cultural history, CE period up to c 1500, Medieval History, Animals & society, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Social and cultural history, Animals and society, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval