How to Make a Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages
From Animal Studies Living Bibliography
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Karl Tobias Steel, How to Make a Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2011).
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Traces a powerful humanist or proto-humanist current within medieval philosophy and literature; this predominant (though not ubiquitous) current of thought identifies the essentially “human” as that which subordinates and exploits the category of the “animal.” - SUSAN CRANE