On MacGregor, Lesley. “Criminalising Animals in Medieval France: Insights from Records of Executions.” Open Library of the Humanities 5 (2019).
MacGregor explores cases in which animals were formally executed for crimes such as harming persons or property in 14th/15th-century France, specifically positing the role that...
On Ralph, Iris. “An Animal Studies and Ecocritical Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” Neohelicon 44 (2017): 431-444.
Ralph focuses on the anonymous 14th-century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and its embedded insights about medieval attitudes toward hunting animals for sport:...
On Stanton, Robert. “Mimicry, Subjectivity, and the Embodied Voice in Anglo-Saxon Bird Riddles.” Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe, ed. Irit Ruth Kleiman. New York, Palgrave, 2015.
Stanton treats the bird riddles of Anglo-Saxon England as “a rich field in which to explore the nature, operation, and function of voice as a...
On Taylor, Anna. “Where Are the Wild Things? Animals in Western Medieval European History.” History Compass 16 (2018).
Social historians have examined (economically important) species, and cultural historians have analyzed the symbolism of animals in the Middle Ages. Taylor writes that the historiography...
Lit review in process: Medieval Animal Studies
For my English 7011 lit review I will, broadly speaking, focus on animal studies in medieval-literary scholarship. Due to the fact that animal studies is...