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