{"product_id":"9781785708671","title":"Breaking and Shaping Beastly Bodies: Animals as Material Culture in the Middle Ages","description":"An important human trait is our inclination to develop complex  relationships with numerous other species. In the great majority  of cases, however, these mutualistic relationships involve a pair  of species whose co-evolution has been achieved through  behavioural adaptation driving positive selection pressures.  Humans go a step further, opportunistically and, it sometimes  seems, almost arbitrarily elaborating relationships with many  other species, whether through domestication, pet-keeping, taming  for menageries, deifying, pest-control, conserving iconic  species, or recruiting as mascots. When we consider medieval  attitudes, to animals we are tackling a fundamentally human, and  distinctly idiosyncratic, behavioural trait. The sixteen papers  presented here investigate animals from zoological,  anthropological, artistic and economic perspectives, within the  context of the medieval world.","brand":"Oxbow Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135928025328,"sku":"9781785708671","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781785708671_p0.jpg?v=1763728160","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781785708671","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}