Equine Medicine and Popular Romance in Late Medieval England

Francine McGregor holds a PhD in literature from the University of Connecticut and is currently an Assistant Professor of Medieval Literature at Arizona State University, New College. She has published on Chaucer, Medieval British Romance, Gender Studies, and Animal Studies, with a particular focus on horses.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction1 Hippiatric Manuals and Horse Hooves1 No Hoof; No Horse2 From Hostile Hooves to Unruly Organs: Malory’s Lancelot and the Limits of Metaphor2 “Unmaking” Animal Bodies1 Between Bodies2 Severed Heads and Interchangeable Selves3 Unmaking Metaphor3 Reining Fantasies: Bridles, Will, and Animal Inwardness1 Hippiatric Manuals and Equine Minds2 Bodies and Bridles3 Translating Animals, Translating Desire4 Shared Selves4 Equine Bodies and Human Time; or, Saddling Space and Time1 Saddling Movement2 The Economics of Mortality3 What’s Love Got to Do with It?5 “As Hot as He May Suffer It”: Pain, Touch, and Healing1 Hand, Touch, and Sensory Troubles2 Hippiatric Texts and Invisible Hands3 Pain, Touch, and Healing4 Literary Sleights of Hand and Participatory TouchConclusionBibliography