A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture
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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 Culturepresents an overall examination of the history of the werewolf in Western culture, medicine, myth, and literature.
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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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