Table of Contents

@contents:Selected Contents: Preface to the Second Edition Introduction: What is an animal? 1: Animals as Property Animal Use Animal Values Attitudes and Ambiguities 2: Animals as Food Wild Animals Domestic Animals Attitudes Toward Food 3: Animal Sexuality Sexual Characteristics of Animals Bestiality 4: Animals as Human Exemplars Classical Heritage Medieval Rediscovery The Animals 5: Animals as Humans Animals on Trial Companion Animals, or Pets 6: Humans as Animals Creatures on the Borders Bestial Humans Metamorphosis Conclusion: What is a Human? Appendix: Relative Animal Values Notes Bibliography

About the Author

Joyce E. Salisbury is the Frankenthal Professor of History Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, USA. She has published widely, and is the author of The Blood of Martyrs (2004), and Church Fathers, Independent Virgins (1992), and the editor of Sex in the Middle Ages (1991) and Medieval World of Nature (1993).