How to Make a Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages

by Karl Steel

Book Overview

How to Make a Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages tracks human attempts to cordon humans off from other life through a wide range of medieval texts and practices, including encyclopedias, dietary guides, resurrection doctrine, cannibal narrative, butchery law, boar-hunting, and teratology. Karl Steel argues that the human subjugation of animals played an essential role in the medieval concept of the human. In their works and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814211577
• ISBN13: 9780814211571
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"