Bücher der Reihe The Middle Ages Series

"Invaluable to those who need to disentangle the complex family relationships of those who controlled much of Europe for so many centuries."-American Historical Review

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.