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Salisbury (history, Univ. of Wisconsin, Green Bay) presents an exploration of how people viewed and used animals from the fourth to the 14th centuries A.D. Clear categories separating humans and animals were established in the early Middle Ages, resulting in a definition of the uniqueness of humans as rational beings. However, through the use of animals as property, food, and sexual objects, human-animal distinctions began to break down, and the process was completed with the rediscovery of classical fables and the Reynard stories. Written for a general audience, this book may be considered an optional purchase where interest in animal rights is strong.
Robert A. Curtis, Taylor Memorial P.L., Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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...a brave and fascinating exploration of an area that has so far been rather neglected by both historical and literary critics. The Beast Within provides extremely valuable information on the legal and cultural background of the human-animal relationship... -- Studies in the Age of Chaucer
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Salisbury (history, Univ. of Wisconsin, Green Bay) presents an exploration of how people viewed and used animals from the fourth to the 14th centuries A.D. Clear categories separating humans and animals were established in the early Middle Ages, resulting in a definition of the uniqueness of humans as rational beings. However, through the use of animals as property, food, and sexual objects, human-animal distinctions began to break down, and the process was completed with the rediscovery of classical fables and the Reynard stories. Written for a general audience, this book may be considered an optional purchase where interest in animal rights is strong.
Robert A. Curtis, Taylor Memorial P.L., Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
...a brave and fascinating exploration of an area that has so far been rather neglected by both historical and literary critics. The Beast Within provides extremely valuable information on the legal and cultural background of the human-animal relationship... -- Studies in the Age of Chaucer
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ANIMALS BELONG TO PEOPLE. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bestial intercourse, human exemplars, animal intercourse, elfth century, medieval exempla, ith animals, beast epics, medieval diet, classical fables, bestial behavior, fable tradition, monstrous races, raptorial birds, animal sexuality, animal values, medieval imagination, hunting partners Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Thomas Aquinas, Gerald of Wales, Old Testament, Walter of Henley, Albert the Great, Anglo-Saxon England, Isidore of Seville, The Norwegian, Muddle Ages, The Romans New!
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ANIMALS BELONG TO PEOPLE. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bestial intercourse, human exemplars, animal intercourse, elfth century, medieval exempla, ith animals, beast epics, medieval diet, classical fables, bestial behavior, fable tradition, monstrous races, raptorial birds, animal sexuality, animal values, medieval imagination, hunting partners Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Thomas Aquinas, Gerald of Wales, Old Testament, Walter of Henley, Albert the Great, Anglo-Saxon England, Isidore of Seville, The Norwegian, Muddle Ages, The Romans New!
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- The Summa Theologica (Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 19 & 20) by Thomas Aquinas on 10 pages
- The Book of Beasts : Being a Translation from a Latin Bestiary of the Twelfth Century by Terence Hanbury White on 6 pages
- Church Fathers, Independent Virgins by Joyce E. Salisbury on 5 pages
- Visions of Heaven & Hell Before Dante by Eileen Gardiner on 4 pages
- Fables: Babrius and Phaedrus (Loeb Classical Library No. 436) by Babrius on 4 pages
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- Perceiving Animals: Humans and Beasts in Early Modern English Culture by Erica Fudge on 5 pages
- Perceiving Animals: Humans and Beasts in Early Modern English Culture by Erica Fudge on 5 pages
- Animal Acts: Configuring the Human in Western History by Matthew Senior on 5 pages
- Animals in the Middle Ages by Nora C. Flores on 4 pages
- Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust by Charles Patterson on 4 pages
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