Research Catalog

Title

The animal-human boundary : historical perspectives / edited by Angela N.H. Creager and William Chester Jordan.

Publication

Rochester, N.Y. : University of Rochester Press, c2002.

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Additional Authors

• Creager, Angela N. H.
• Jordan, William Chester, 1948-
• Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies.

Description

xviii, 342 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in comparative history, 1539-4905

Subject

• Animals and civilization
• Animals > Symbolic aspects
• Bestiality

Note

• "A publication of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University."--P. facing t.p.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Eating animals in the early Middle Ages / Rob Meens -- Representation of medieval peasants as bestial and as human / Paul H. Freedman -- Separating the men from the goats / Ruth Mazo Karras -- Imagining vermin in early Modern England / Mary E. Fissell -- "Things fearful to name" / John M. Murrin -- Guardian spirits or demonic pets / James A. Serpell -- On the sexual assault of animals / Piers Beirne -- Familiar other and feral selves / H. Peter Steeves -- Founders of ethology and the problem of human aggression / Richard W. Burkhardt Jr.-- Animal parts, human bodies / Susan E. Lederer.

Call Number

JFE 03-5216

ISBN

1580461204 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2002072458

OCLC

49901769

Title

The animal-human boundary : historical perspectives / edited by Angela N.H. Creager and William Chester Jordan.

Imprint

Rochester, N.Y. : University of Rochester Press, c2002.

Series

Studies in comparative history, 1539-4905

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Added Author

Creager, Angela N. H.

Jordan, William Chester, 1948-

Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies.

Research Call Number

JFE 03-5216