Animal Husbandry: Bestiality in Medieval Culture

Acknowledgments

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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