Humans and Other Animals in the Middle Ages: An Introduction and Reader

by Philip Line

This sourcebook serves both as an introduction and a wide-ranging reference work for human attitudes to nonhuman animals in Latin Europe during the Middle Ages. Under twelve headings, it includes numerous translated passages from Latin and vernacular texts that reflect human conceptions and uses of other animals during the period 300-1520. Theologians, philosophers, encyclopaedists, bestiarists, hagiographers, chroniclers, huntsmen and writers of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004720847
• ISBN13: 9789004720848
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 736 Pages