A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture

By (author): "Robert Burton, Elliott O'Donnell, Reginald Scot, Stuart Clark, Leland L. Estes, Ovid, Petronius, Marie de France, Eugene Field, Harvey A. Rosenstock, Kenneth R. Vincent, Eric Stenbock, Frida G. Surawicz, Richard Banta, Robert Bayfield, Giraldux Cambrensis, Sabine"

Genres:Nonfiction books History books Mythology books Supernatural books Werewolves books

Publish Date: November 1st 1986

A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture

ISBN0880294000

ISBN139780880294003

AsinA Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture

Original titleA Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture

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 CONTENTSIllustrationsContributorsPrefaceAcknowledmentsIntroductionsection I: Medical Cases, Diagnoses, DescriptionsSection II: Trial Records, Historical Accounts, SightingsSection II: Philosophical and Theological Approaches to MetamorphosisSection IV: Critical essays on LycanthropySection V: Myth and LEgendsSection VI: AllegoryBibliographyIndex