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Animal Husbandry: Bestiality in Medieval Culture
Series: - Explorations in Medieval Culture, Volume: 26
Volume Editor:
How was bestiality perceived in the Middle Ages? The answer is far from simple. Depending on the context, it might be a kingmaking ritual, a boys’ game, a pact with the devil, a peccadillo or a capital offense. As dangerous as it could be to be suspected by one’s own neighbors of committing bestiality, medieval literature and art are full of often exhilarating erotic interspecies encounters. In the end, this volume suggests that there is a zoophilic streak in all humans – the medievals as well as ourselves.
Contributors are Crystal Beamer, Bailey Flannery, Katherine Leach, Marian E. Polhill, Anna Russakoff, Joyce E. Salisbury, Andrea Schutz, Jacqueline A. Stuhmiller, Larissa Tracy, and Tess Wingard.
Contributors are Crystal Beamer, Bailey Flannery, Katherine Leach, Marian E. Polhill, Anna Russakoff, Joyce E. Salisbury, Andrea Schutz, Jacqueline A. Stuhmiller, Larissa Tracy, and Tess Wingard.
Jacqueline A. Stuhmiller, Ph.D. (2005), Cornell University, is Associate Teaching Professor in the Honors College at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has published articles on medieval hunting and poaching, trial by combat, and giants.
Acknowledgments
PrefaceIi
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction: the Stallion and the Unicorn, or, Animal Lovers
Jacqueline A. Stuhmiller
1 Contra naturam: Bestiality in Medieval Scientific Discourse
Marian E. Polhill
2 “Between the Paws of a Tender Wolf”: Medieval Influences and Other Tales (Un)Told in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber
Bailey Flannery
3 The Animality of Man: Sexual Transgression and Animal Transformation in a Middle Welsh Prose Tale
Katherine Leach
4 Bestiality, Confession and Social Control in Late Medieval England
Tess Wingard
5 Bestial Intercourse in Cheuelere Assigne
Crystal Beamer
6 Sympathizing with the Werewolf’s Wife: the Dynamics of Trust, Betrayal, and Bestiality in Bisclavret
Larissa Tracy
7 “Wulf, min wulf”: Animal Others and Animal Lovers in “Wulf and Eadwacer”
Andrea Schutz
8 Bestiality in Medieval Art: Cross-cultural Reflections on a Lascivious Lacuna
Anna Russakoff
9 “Shame to Him Who Thinks Evil”: the Deviant Pleasures of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Jacqueline A. Stuhmiller
Conclusion: Bestiality: Some Things Stay the Same. …
Joyce E. Salisbury
Bibliography 267
Index 275
PrefaceIi
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction: the Stallion and the Unicorn, or, Animal Lovers
Jacqueline A. Stuhmiller
Part 1: Bestiality in Theory
1 Contra naturam: Bestiality in Medieval Scientific Discourse
Marian E. Polhill
2 “Between the Paws of a Tender Wolf”: Medieval Influences and Other Tales (Un)Told in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber
Bailey Flannery
Part 2: Bestiality in Practice
3 The Animality of Man: Sexual Transgression and Animal Transformation in a Middle Welsh Prose Tale
Katherine Leach
4 Bestiality, Confession and Social Control in Late Medieval England
Tess Wingard
5 Bestial Intercourse in Cheuelere Assigne
Crystal Beamer
Part 3: Marrying the Beast
6 Sympathizing with the Werewolf’s Wife: the Dynamics of Trust, Betrayal, and Bestiality in Bisclavret
Larissa Tracy
7 “Wulf, min wulf”: Animal Others and Animal Lovers in “Wulf and Eadwacer”
Andrea Schutz
Part 4: The Pleasures of Bestiality
8 Bestiality in Medieval Art: Cross-cultural Reflections on a Lascivious Lacuna
Anna Russakoff
9 “Shame to Him Who Thinks Evil”: the Deviant Pleasures of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Jacqueline A. Stuhmiller
Conclusion: Bestiality: Some Things Stay the Same. …
Joyce E. Salisbury
Bibliography 267
Index 275
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