 | Animal Encounters: Contacts and Concepts in Medieval Britain Subjects: English literature -- Middle English 1100–1500 -- History and criticism; Human-animal relationships in literature; Anthropomorphism in literature; Thinking about animals and living with them are vital aspects of medieval experience. Animal Encounters explores saints' lives, hunting treatises, bestiaries, and other genres to discover how various species take part in culture making, revealing that cross-species relationships transform both their animal and their human participants. Susan Crane is Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is author of The Performance of Self: Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
