Medieval Animals on the Move

This book investigates relations between humans and animals over several centuries with a focus on the Middle Ages, since important features of our perceptions regarding animals have been rooted in that period. Elucidating various aspects of medieval human-animal relationships requires transdisciplinary discourse, and so this book aims to reconcile the materiality of animals with complex cultural systems illustrating their subtle transitions 'between body and mind'.

Autorentext

László Bartosiewicz is Professor at Stockholm University, Sweden.
Alice Mathea Choyke is Associate Professor at the Central European University, Austria.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Animals Stepping off the Page; László Bartosiewicz and Alice Choyke.- 2. The Forgotten Pigs and Goats of Iceland in a North Atlantic Context; Bernadette McCooey.- 3. Imperial Horse Policy and the Publication of Equine Veterinary Medicine Books in Ming China: A Case Study on Yuanheng Liaomaji; Zhexin Xu.- 4. Medieval Animals: The Fast and the Slow; Gerhard Jaritz; 5. Animals between Authors and the Natural World in Giovanni da San Gimignano's Liber de exemplis et similitudinibus rerum; Beatrice Amelotti.- 6. Always Angular and Never Straight: Medieval Snakes in Human Graves?; Monika Milosavljevi.- 7. Perpetual Preys: Pursuing the Bonacon Across Space and Time; Zsuzsanna Papp Reed.- 8. What's in a Noun? A Short Caveat Regarding the Difficulties of Identifying Medieval Animals in Texts; Richard Trachsler.- 9. Exotic Encounters: Vikings and Faraway Species in Motion; Csete Katona.- 10. The Question of Feathers in the EarlyModern Cabinet of Curiosities (SixteenthSeventeenth Centuries); Myriam Marrache-Gouraud.