Journal of Interdisciplinary History, xxxii:3 (Winter, 2002)
Abstract
This contribution discusses a phenomenon that is ignored not only in most general cultural histories of the Middle Ages and early modern times but also in most legal histories—trials against animals. What are we to make of the fact that both intellectuals and common people in late medieval and early modern Europe regarded as perfectly reasonable such acts as aling a suit against cockchafers, bringing mice before an ecclesiastical court, or having a dangerous pig punished officially by the town’s hangman?
Animal Trials: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Dinzelbacher, Peter
Journal of Interdisciplinary History, xxxii:3 (Winter, 2002)
Abstract
This contribution discusses a phenomenon that is ignored not only in most general cultural histories of the Middle Ages and early modern times but also in most legal histories—trials against animals. What are we to make of the fact that both intellectuals and common people in late medieval and early modern Europe regarded as perfectly reasonable such acts as aling a suit against cockchafers, bringing mice before an ecclesiastical court, or having a dangerous pig punished officially by the town’s hangman?
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