The Beast Within: Animals in the Middle Ages

by Joyce E. Salisbury

Book Overview

The Beast Within illustrates how, as property, food and sexual objects, animals in the middles ages had a distinct, and at times, odd relationship with the people and world around them. For example, animals viewed as property during the period shared in labor and increased their owners' status. However, these animals were regularly punished for the act owners were held responsible for the animals' behavior as well. When animals served as sexual objects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415907683
• ISBN13: 9780415907682
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary