On Erwin, Bonnie J. “Beyond Mastery: Interspecies Communication in the Middle English Romance.” Exemplaria 29 (2017): 41-57
Along with Ralph’s reading below, this article illuminates animal agency in the middle English romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, albeit taking a broader...
On Estes, Heide. Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes: Ecotheory and the Environmental Imagination. Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2017
While literary scholars traditionally understood landscapes as metaphors, this recent book (recommended to me due to Estes’ status as the most prolific, and one of...
On Kiser, Lisa. “Margery Kempe and the Animalization of Christ: Animal Cruelty in Late Medieval England.” Studies in Philology 106 (2009): 299-315
Kiser examines Christian devotional works and treatises in middle English in concert with Margery’s Book, which “appear as allegories” to show the “suffering of any...
On Koyuncu, Emre. “Animals as Criminals: Towards a Foucauldian Analysis of Animal Trials.” Parergon 35 (2018): 79-96
Koyuncu first presents a literature review--pointing at the shortcomings of “positivist approaches and of the interpretation of the phenomenon” of animal trials in Europe as...
On Kay, Sarah. Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Kay explores how the prominent medieval genre of the French and Latin bestiary interrogates the boundary between its (human) readers and the (other) animals it...