Beast-Humans and Human Beasts

What is it about?

Medieval European beliefs about the following, with example passages from many writers: hybrid human and animal creatures, considered either oddly formed humans or monsters; the possibility of transformation from human to beast and vice versa; offspring of unions between humans and other animals; humans metaphorically described as other animals; and animals representing humans in fables and beast tales.

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Why is it important?

The work is designed as an introduction to the subject of humans and their attitudes to animals in the Middle Ages and to how medieval authors wrote about the subject.