The third edition of The Beast Within has been updated throughout
to include current scholarship, new discussion of definitions, and
fresh perspectives on critical animal theory that places animals,
rather than humans, at the center of the discourse. Organized
thematically, Salisbury incorporates many new sections and
subsections to reveal the multifaceted history of the relationship
between humans and animals: domestication, animal diseases and
pandemics, dogfights, cockfights, Islamic dietary restrictions,
menageries and zoos, and animals as entertainers. To show how
modern concerns have been informed by medieval precedents, sections
have been expanded to uncover medieval understandings of animal
sexuality, animals before the law, and vegetarianism and modern
'fake meat'. The logical narrative concludes with chapters on
'Animals as Humans' and 'Humans as Animals', demonstrating that the
lines between humans and animals have become increasingly blurred
from the fourth to the twenty-first century. With an
interdisciplinary approach that discusses humans and animals in
relation to domestication, symbolism, science, law, religion, food
and diet, sexuality, and entertainment, The Beast Within is an
essential resource for all students of animal history, literature,
and art in the Middle Ages.
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