At 15:06 30.06.98 +0200, you wrote:
>Peter Dinzelbacher, Heuberg 172 A-5023 Salzburg.
>I have been working especially in the fields of medieval popular religion,
>mysticism, visions. Though these items continue to be of much interest for
>me, at the moment I am looking for informations on animals and religion and
>law and religion. I would wellcome very much hints concerning recent or
>"hidden" publications and sources on animal trials. Another actual subject
>of work is the question of disbelief/atheism in the middle ages.
Dear Prof. Dinzelbacher,
As regards my own resources, offering bibliography to Dinzelbacher is a bit
like cacciare la lepre col bue, but if the animal trials you are interested
in are not fictious animal trials but cases of human legal prosecution
against animals, I can refer you to Piers Beirne, _The Law is an Ass:
Reading E. P. Evans' "The Medieval Prosecution and Capital Punishment of
Animals"_, in: Society & Animals 2,1 (1994), p.27ss., online version at the
following address:
http://www.psyeta.org/sa/sa2.1/beirne.html
Best regards, and welcome to the list!
Otfried Lieberknecht
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