The Thirteenth-Century Animal Turn

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<div><i>The Thirteenth-Century Animal Turn: Medieval and Twenty-First-Century Perspectives</i> examines a wide range of texts to argue in favour of a thirteenth-century animal turn which not only generated a heightened scholarly awareness of animals but also had major implications for society more generally. Using diverse primary sources, the book considers the role of Aristotle in shaping thirteenth-century perspectives on natural history; Pope Innocent III¿s encouraging the use of animals in the theological and moral instruction of the laity; the increasing relevance of animals to the promotion and assertion of lay aristocratic identity; and the tension between violence and affection towards animals that pervaded the thirteenth century as it does the twenty-first. Analysing these many considerations, Nigel Harris also argues that the thirteenth century was an era in which traditional conceptions of the fundamental `anthropological difference¿ between humans and animals was subjectedto increasingly urgent questioning and challenge. </div>

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<b>Nigel Harris</b> is Reader in German at the University of Birmingham, UK.<p></p><div> </div>

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