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These two works on medieval European human-animal relations discuss punishment of both human and animal partners in bestiality, as well as other punishments meted out to animal perpetrators.


Cohen, Esther

1994 Animals in medieval perceptions: The image of the ubiquitous other. In Animals and Human Society: Changing Perspectives. A. Manning and J. A. Serpell, eds. Pp. 59-80. London: Routledge.


Salisbury, Joyce E.

1994 The Beast Within: Animals in the Middle Ages. New York: Routledge. (Chapter 3)



Nerissa Russell
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Hi Louisa,

DeMello (2012) mentions several laws and general behaviours regarding bestiality. She does not provide specific cases, though. (At least in the fast search I did.) She however refers another work that might be of interest: Podberscek & Beetz (2005).

Another work that mentions a few situations and how they were perceived  across time is Paul & Serpell (2002).

References:

  *   DeMello, M. (2012) – Animals and society: an introduction to human-animal studies. New York: Columbia University Press.
  *   Paul, E., & Serpell, J. (2002). Pets and the development of positive attitudes to animals. In Animals and human society (pp. 165-182). Routledge.
  *   Podberscek, A. L., & Beetz, A. M. (Eds.). (2005). Bestiality and Zoophilia: Sexual Relations with Animals. Berg.

Best to all,

-- MJ

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From: "GIDNEY, LOUISA J." <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
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Subject: [ZOOARCH] possible evidence for bestiality
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 12:48:42 +0000


I've been asked by a colleague whether anyone has ever come across possible evidence for this sentence passed in 1642 on a man in New England convicted of bestiality with livestock:

the mare, the cow and the sheep identified by the perpetrator were killed before him and buried in a pit dug for the purpose, with no use being made of any part of them. The reference is in Darren Oldridge, 2005, Strange Histories, p.43.

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