Animals in the Middle Ages Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
	Abbreviations
	Movable Beasts: The Manifold Implications of Early Germanic Animal Imagery	3
	The Truculent Toad in the Middle Ages	25
	Human Animals of Medieval Fables	49
	Parodic Animal Physicians from the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts	67
	Making Animals Mean: Speciest Hermeneutics in the Physiologus of Theobaldus	85
	On the Question of a Physiologus Tradition in Emblematic Art and Writing	103
	The Werewolf as Eiron: Freedom and Comedy in William of Palerne	133
	Gargoyles: Animal Imagery and Artistic Individuality in Medieval Art	147
	"Effigies amicitiae . . . veritas inimicitiae": Antifeminism in the Iconography of the Woman-Headed Serpent in Medieval and Renaissance Art and Literature	167
	Contributors	197
	General Index	199
	Index of Animals and Creatures	205