Preface
1 Prehistory, before 5000 BC
New Relationships
2 Antiquity, 5000 BC - AD 500
Untamed Nature, Cities and War - Domestication -
Hunting - Slaughter as Spectacle - Menageries and the Exotic
3 The Middle Ages, 500-1400
Changing Relationships - Animals, Morality, and Sex -
Animals and Devalued Humans - Domestication - Animals,
Humans and the Plague - Hunting - Fear - Public
Processions and Rituals - Animal Trials - Entertainment -
Medieval Menageries
4 The Renaissance, 1400-1600
Death, Disease and Dead Animals - Hunting - Social Disorder
and Animal Massacres - Animal-baiting - Cultural Analyses of
Animal-baiting - Ceremony and Ritual - Horns, Masculinity
and Honour - Looking Toward Animal Welfare
5 The Enlightenment, 1600-1800
Dead Animal Portraiture - Live Animal Portraiture -
Animal Massacres as Ritual - Exhibition as Entertainment -
Exotics and Pets - Dogs and Rabies - Exhibition as Education -
Growing Opposition to Cruelty - Looking at Cruelty
6 Modernity, 1800-2000
Dogcarts, Rabies and Sex - Natural History and Hunting -
Spectacles of Game Hunting - Zoo Spectacles -
Theme Park Spectacles - Bullfighting as Ritual -
Looking at the Postmodern Animal
Notes
Bibliography
Photo Acknowledgements
Index