Animal Husbandry: Bestiality in Medieval Culture

Introduction: the Stallion and the Unicorn, or, Animal Lovers

 Jacqueline A. Stuhmiller

Part 1: Bestiality in Theory

1 Contra naturam: Bestiality in Medieval Scientific Discourse

 Marian E. Polhill

2 “Between the Paws of a Tender Wolf”: Medieval Influences and Other Tales (Un)Told in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber

 Bailey Flannery

Part 2: Bestiality in Practice

3 The Animality of Man: Sexual Transgression and Animal Transformation in a Middle Welsh Prose Tale

 Katherine Leach

4 Bestiality, Confession and Social Control in Late Medieval England

 Tess Wingard

5 Bestial Intercourse in Cheuelere Assigne

 Crystal Beamer

Part 3: Marrying the Beast

6 Sympathizing with the Werewolf’s Wife: the Dynamics of Trust, Betrayal, and Bestiality in Bisclavret

 Larissa Tracy

7 “Wulf, min wulf”: Animal Others and Animal Lovers in “Wulf and Eadwacer”

 Andrea Schutz

Part 4: The Pleasures of Bestiality

8 Bestiality in Medieval Art: Cross-cultural Reflections on a Lascivious Lacuna

 Anna Russakoff

9 “Shame to Him Who Thinks Evil”: the Deviant Pleasures of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

 Jacqueline A. Stuhmiller

Conclusion: Bestiality: Some Things Stay the Same. …

 Joyce E. Salisbury

Bibliography 267

Index 275