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...
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:...