Cover illustration: Playing Card, with Wild Woman and Unicorn, Master ES (German, active ca. 1450–67), The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1922 (Accession Number: 22.83.16).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Stuhmiller, Jacqueline A., editor.
Title: Animal husbandry : bestiality in medieval culture / edited by Jacqueline A. Stuhmiller.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2025] | Series: Explorations in medieval culture, 2352-0299 ; volume 26 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2024054938 (print) | LCCN 2024054939 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004429666 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004707481 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Bestiality—History—to 1500. | Zoophilia—History—to 1500. | Human-animal relationships—History—to 1500. | Bestiality in literature. | Human-animal relationships in art. | Human-animal relationships in literature. | Civilization, Medieval.
Classification: LCC HQ71.5.B47 A55 2025 (print) | LCC HQ71.5.B47 (ebook) | DDC 306.7709/02—dc23/eng/20250207
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024054938
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024054939
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ISSN 2352-0299
ISBN 978-90-04-42966-6 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-70748-1 (e-book)
DOI 10.1163/9789004707481
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