Animal Husbandry: Bestiality in Medieval Culture

Jacqueline A. Stuhmiller, Ph.D. (2005), Cornell University, is Associate Teaching Professor in the Honors College at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has published articles on medieval hunting and poaching, trial by combat, and giants.

• AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIiList of FiguresList of ContributorsIntroduction: the Stallion and the Unicorn, or, Animal LoversJacqueline A. StuhmillerPart 1: Bestiality in Theory1 Contra naturam: Bestiality in Medieval Scientific DiscourseMarian E. Polhill2 “Between the Paws of a Tender Wolf”: Medieval Influences and Other Tales (Un)Told in Angela Carter’s The Bloody ChamberBailey FlanneryPart 2: Bestiality in Practice3 The Animality of Man: Sexual Transgression and Animal Transformation in a Middle Welsh Prose TaleKatherine Leach4 Bestiality, Confession and Social Control in Late Medieval EnglandTess Wingard5 Bestial Intercourse in Cheuelere AssigneCrystal BeamerPart 3: Marrying the Beast6 Sympathizing with the Werewolf’s Wife: the Dynamics of Trust, Betrayal, and Bestiality in BisclavretLarissa Tracy7 “Wulf, min wulf”: Animal Others and Animal Lovers in “Wulf and Eadwacer”Andrea SchutzPart 4: The Pleasures of Bestiality8 Bestiality in Medieval Art: Cross-cultural Reflections on a Lascivious LacunaAnna Russakoff9 “Shame to Him Who Thinks Evil”: the Deviant Pleasures of Sir Gawain and the Green KnightJacqueline A. StuhmillerConclusion: Bestiality: Some Things Stay the Same. …Joyce E. SalisburyBibliography 267Index 275