Pets.
- Author / Editor
- Steel, Karl.
Pets.
- Published
- How Not to Make a Human: Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019), pp. 17-40.
- Description
- Reviews medieval disapproval of pet-keeping among religious personnel as evidence that companionship with animals has a long history and that medieval "pet-love" can "help us to unthink the human." Comments on pet-slayings in versions of the international "Canis legend" and, positing that the love of animals in the GP description of the Prioress is sincere, argues that it reflects a queer version of community, one that prompts us to (re)consider our own.
- Alternative Title
- How Not to Make a Human: Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale