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).
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.
With an interdisciplinary approach that discusses humans and animals in relation to domestication, symbolism, science, law, religion, food and diet, sexuality, and entertainment, The Beast Within is an essential resource for all students of animal history, literature, and art in the Middle Ages.
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Exploring the varying roles of animals as property, food and sexual objects, and the complex relationship that this created with the people and world around them from the 4th to the 14th centuries, providing students with a compressive overview of how animals were perceived in the Middle Ages.
The book shows not just how animals were viewed in the middle ages but how the scholarship has evolved with modern perceptions of the relationship between humans and animals, this edition includes a discussion of new Critical Animal Studies and of PETA´s movement to change our metaphoric use of animals, ensuring students are aware of how modern views influence the past and vice versa.
This third edition includes two new subsections on domestication of animals and "Modern Legal Issues” which include a discussions of domestication of animals, animals as vectors of disease with the implications for medieval plague and modern pandemics and the modern ramifications of putting animals on trial providing students with an up to date overview of the historiography for their classes and research.
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?
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.
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.
With an interdisciplinary approach that discusses humans and animals in relation to domestication, symbolism, science, law, religion, food and diet, sexuality, and entertainment, The Beast Within is an essential resource for all students of animal history, literature, and art in the Middle Ages.
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?
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).
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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.
