A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture

Charlotte F. Otten, Clemence Houseman, Heinrich Kramer, Henri Boguet, Sabine Baring-Gould, Giraldux Cambrensis, Robert Bayfield, Richard Banta, Frida G. Surawicz, Count Stenbock, Kenneth R. Vincent, Harvey A. Rosenstock, Eugene Field, Marie de France, Petronius, Ovid, Leland L. Estes, Stuart Clark, Reginald Scot, Elliott O'Donnell, Robert Burton

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A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture by Charlotte F. Otten, Clemence Houseman, Heinrich Kramer, Henri Boguet, Sabine Baring-Gould, Giraldux Cambrensis, Robert Bayfield, Richard Banta, Frida G. Surawicz, Count Stenbock, Kenneth R. Vincent, Harvey A. Rosenstock, Eugene Field, Marie de France, Petronius, Ovid, Leland L. Estes, Stuart Clark, Reginald Scot, Elliott O'Donnell, Robert Burton
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
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