The Introduction provides a roadmap for the larger study. The first part problematizes the category of the sympathetic werewolf, identifying—and presenting arguments in response to—the myriad questions arising from the werewolf’s unsettling body, including those related to human interactions with non-human bodies, spaces, and objects. It identifies, as well, the corpus of medieval werewolf romances in French, Latin, and Middle English, texts in which the werewolf, as protagonist, is specifically a male, chivalric figure—a knight in most instances, but also, in one, a prince, and, in another, a king. The second part establishes the study’s theoretical framework, defining key concepts from queer, spatial, and thing theories, including Timothy Morton’s “queer ecology” and Karen Barad’s “intra-action.” This part also notes the study’s indebtedness to Slavoj Žižek’s categories of violence, and to other works about the werewolf and/or interspecies relations informed by or anticipating the animal turn, especially those by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Susan Crane. Finally, the Introduction turns to the chapters themselves, suggesting subcategories for the werewolf romance corpus and providing a synopsis of the three parts and six chapters that follow, each of which focuses upon a single text.