Table of Contents

Eating Animals in the Early Middle Ages: Classifying the Animal World and Building Group Ideentities Rob MeensRob Meens
The Representation of Medieval Peasants as Bestial and as Human Paul Freedman
Separating the Men from the Goats: Masculinity, Civilization, and Identity Formation in the Medieval University Ruth Mazo KarrasRuth Mazo Karras
Imagining Vermin in Early Modern England Mary E. Fissell
"Things Fearful to Name": Bestiality in Early America John M. Murrin
Guardian Spirits or Demonic Pets: The Concept of the Witch's Familiar in Early Modern England, 1530-1712. James A. SerpellJames A. Serpell
On the Sexual Assault of Animals: A Sociological View Piers Beirne
The Familiar Other and Feral Selves: Life at the Human/Animal Boundary H. Peter SteevesH. Peter Steeves
The Founders of Ethology and the Problem of Human Aggression: A Study in Ethology's Ecologies Richard W. Burkhardt Jr.Richard W. Burkhardt Jr.
Animal Parts/Human Bodies: Organic Transplantation in Early Twentieth-Century America Susan E. LedererSusan E. Lederer

About the Author

Angela N. H. Creager and William Chester Jordan are associates of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University.

Reviews

The Animal/Human Boundary will stand as a model for how research from different historical perspectives can be brought together in a coherent, valuable whole.
*ANTHROZOOS, 2004*