3rd Edition

The Beast Within Animals in the Middle Ages

By Joyce E. Salisbury Copyright 2022
234 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

    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?

    Biography

    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).