Download or read book Beasts of Love written by Jeanette M. A. Beer and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Le Bestiare d'amour and the Response, a medieval chancellor's erotic bestiary to a woman is countered by the woman's passionate protest against the cleric's misogynistic presuppositions. Beer presents a close, linear reading of the two literary texts.