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Explores the distribution of wolves in the landscape, their potential impact as predators on both animals and people, and their use as commodities, in literature, art, cosmology and identity, showing how both practical and cultural differences came together to bring about the eradication and, ultimately, extermination of the wolf.
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The complex attitude to the wolf in the Middle Ages re-evaluated, bringing together historical and other evidence.
The wolf, a common metaphor for vice in medieval Christian literature, is today an iconic symbol of the intense fear and insecurity that some associate with the middle ages. In reality, responses to wolves varied across medieval Europe. Although not dependent on the wilderness, wolves were conceptually linked to this environment - which although on the fringes of medieval society, became increasingly exploited from the eighth to fourteenth centuries, so bringing people and livestock closer to the wolf.
This book compares responses to wolves, focusing on two regions, Britain and southern Scandinavia. It looks at the distribution of wolves in the landscape, their potential impact as predators on both animals and people, and their use as commodities, in literature, art, cosmology and identity. It also investigates the reasons (both practical and cultural) for the eradication of wolves in England, but their survival on the Scandinavian peninsula.
ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI is Associate Professor, Department of Archaeology, University of Reading,
Contents
Into the Woods: The Physical Wolf in the Landscape
Lupine Landscapes: Physical Wilderness in Medieval Britain and Scandinavia
Lupine Landscapes II: Conceptualising Medieval Wilderness
Wolves, Game and Livestock: Predation and Conflict
Wolves and People: Hunting the Hunters
Breaking the Lupine Body: Wolves as Commodities
Ravenous and Gullible: Wolves in Medieval Beast Literature
Lupine Identities: The Emblematic Wolf
From ódinn to St. Edmund: Wolves in Pagan and Christian Cosmologies
Transgressing Boundaries through Bestial Violence: Human Wolves
