The Middle Ages provides a particularly rich trove of hybrid creatures semihuman beings and composite bodies we need only consider manuscript pages and stone capitals in Romanesque churches to picture the myriad figures incorporating both human and animal elements that allow movement between and even confusion of components of each realm. From Beasts to Souls Gender and Embodiment in Medieval Europe raises the issues of species and gender in tandem asking readers to consider more fully what happens to gender in medieval representations of nonhuman embodiment. The contributors reflect on the gender of stones and the soul of worms and dragons showing that medieval cultural artifacts whether literary historical or visual do not limit questions of gender to predictable forms of human or semihuman embodiment.