Essential text for animals studies book, recommended with reservations. Newmyer’s anthology argues for the rights and inclusiveness model of thinking animals critically and ethically. Kinship…
The story goes like this: Anno Domini MCCCIIII. Quidam puer in partibus Hassie est deprehensus. Hic, sicut postea cognitum est, et sicut ipse retulit, cum…
Take 10 minutes and listen to Barbara Smuts talk about becoming a shy baboon. She becomes baboon by sitting like one (see picture above); she…
“Man’s genetic inheritance is quite formless until it has been given a shape by social forces, yet the direction of these forces themselves may always…
Highly recommended; very much out of copyright, and very short, and thus ideal for the classroom. There exists equally with the savage, the most insulated,…
A disappointment. Clearly the Second Edition of Salisbury’s oft-cited book witnesses to the still rising interest in animals in critical theory and social history. It’s…
1) Point the First: saw an excellent paper (“Lost Geographies and The Awntyrs off Arthure”) by Kathleen Coyne Kelly at the MLA in the “Alliterative…
Amid a fruitless search for a Dutch fish knight1, I accidentally discovered a wolf boy, the earliest, so I later read, of Northern Europe’s historical…
Medieval Norse whaling was not a romatic affair of man versus beast as Melville might have us believe. No Viking Ahabs plumbed their psychological depths…
Take a red Cock that is not too olde, and beate him to death, and when he is dead, fley him and quarter him in…
