The animal-human boundary : historical perspectives / edited by Angela N.H. Creager and William Chester Jordan.

Rochester, N.Y. : University of Rochester Press, [2002], ©2002.

xviii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

"A publication of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University."--P. facing t.p.

Eating animals in the early Middle Ages / Rob Meens -- Representation of medieval peasants as bestial and as human / Paul H. Freedman -- Separating the men from the goats / Ruth Mazo Karras -- Imagining vermin in early Modern England / Mary E. Fissell -- "Things fearful to name" / John M. Murrin -- Guardian spirits or demonic pets / James A. Serpell -- On the sexual assault of animals / Piers Beirne -- Familiar other and feral selves / H. Peter Steeves -- Founders of ethology and the problem of human aggression / Richard W. Burkhardt Jr.-- Animal parts, human bodies / Susan E. Lederer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.