Jewish dog-men appear in medieval texts with less frequency than their Muslim counterparts, which may be due to the threat that Islam posed militarily and politically, the social position of Jews in Christian communities, and the additional spaces in which anti-Jewish characters are found, including the bestiary.

XREF: Connects to broader medieval bestiary scholarship and the comparative representation of religious others in Christian Europe.

Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imag…, loc. 219