Animals in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction ix
Abbreviations xvii
Part 1. More than an Animal
Stephen O. Glosecki / Movable Beasts: The Manifold Implications of Early Germanic Animal Imagery 3
Mary E. Robbins / The Truculent Toad in the Middle Ages 25
Joyce E. Salisbury / Human Animals of Medieval Fables 49
David A. Sprunger / Parodic Animal Physicians from the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts 67
Part 2. Another Look at the Physiologus
Lesley Kordecki / Making Animals Mean: Speciest Hermeneutics in the \"Physiologus\" of Theobaldus 85
Dietmar Peil / On the Question of a \"Physiologus\" Tradition in Emblematic Art and Writing 103
Part 3. Neither Man nor Beast
Norman Hinton / The Werewolf as \'Eiron\': Freedom and Comedy in \"William of Palerne\" 133
Janetta Rebold Benton / Gargoyles: Animal Imagery and Artistic Individuality in Medieval Art 147
Nona C. Flores / \"Effigies amicitiae... veritas inimicitiae\": Antifeminism in the Iconography of the Woman-Headed Serpent in Medieval and Renaissance Art and Literature 167
Contributors 197
General Index 199
Index of Animals and Creatures 205