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A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture

Sabine Baring-Gould

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This book collects works from contemporary medical journals, historical werewolf trials, medival texts on lycanthorpy, philosophy about werewolves, and some of the seminal werewolf fiction. A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture presents an overall examination of the history of the werewolf in Western culture, medicine, myth, and literature.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Illustrations
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledments
Introduction
section I: Medical Cases, Diagnoses, Descriptions
Section II: Trial Records, Historical Accounts, Sightings
Section II: Philosophical and Theological Approaches to Metamorphosis
Section IV: Critical essays on Lycanthropy
Section V: Myth and LEgends
Section VI: Allegory
Bibliography
Index

Language: English

Pages: 337

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Dorset Press

Release: March 01, 1990

ISBN: 0880294000

ISBN 13: 9780880294003

A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture

Sabine Baring-Gould

3.9/5 ( ratings)

This book collects works from contemporary medical journals, historical werewolf trials, medival texts on lycanthorpy, philosophy about werewolves, and some of the seminal werewolf fiction. A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture presents an overall examination of the history of the werewolf in Western culture, medicine, myth, and literature.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Illustrations
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledments
Introduction
section I: Medical Cases, Diagnoses, Descriptions
Section II: Trial Records, Historical Accounts, Sightings
Section II: Philosophical and Theological Approaches to Metamorphosis
Section IV: Critical essays on Lycanthropy
Section V: Myth and LEgends
Section VI: Allegory
Bibliography
Index

Language: English

Pages: 337

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Dorset Press

Release: March 01, 1990

ISBN: 0880294000

ISBN 13: 9780880294003

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