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Introduction: the Stallion and the Unicorn, or, Animal Lovers?Jacqueline A. StuhmillerPart 1: Bestiality in Theory1 Contra naturam: Bestiality in Medieval Scientific Discourse?Marian E. Polhill2 "Between the Paws of a Tender Wolf": Medieval Influences and Other Tales (Un)Told in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber?Bailey FlanneryPart 2: Bestiality in Practice3 The Animality of Man: Sexual Transgression and Animal Transformation in a Middle Welsh Prose Tale?Katherine Leach4 Bestiality, Confession and Social Control in Late Medieval England?Tess Wingard5 Bestial Intercourse in Cheuelere Assigne?Crystal BeamerPart 3: Marrying the Beast6 Sympathizing with the Werewolf's Wife: the Dynamics of Trust, Betrayal, and Bestiality in Bisclavret?Larissa Tracy7 "Wulf, min wulf": Animal Others and Animal Lovers in "Wulf and Eadwacer"?Andrea SchutzPart 4: The Pleasures of Bestiality8 Bestiality in Medieval Art: Cross-cultural Reflections on a Lascivious Lacuna?Anna Russakoff9 "Shame to Him Who Thinks Evil": the Deviant Pleasures of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?Jacqueline A. StuhmillerConclusion: Bestiality: Some Things Stay the Same. ...?Joyce E. SalisburyBibliography 267Index 275