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Medieval Animals on the Move

Between Body and Mind

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Editors:
  1. László Bartosiewicz

    1. Osteoarchaeological Research Laboratory, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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  2. Alice M. Choyke

    1. Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Vienna, Austria

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  • Investigates relations between humans and animals over several centuries with a focus on the Middle Ages

  • Aims to reconcile the materiality of animals with complex cultural systems illustrating their subtle transitions 'between body and mind'

  • Examines various aspects of medieval human-animal relationships

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: Animals Stepping off the Page

    • László Bartosiewicz, Alice M. Choyke
    Pages 1-12

  3. The Forgotten Pigs and Goats of Iceland in a North Atlantic Context

    • Bernadette McCooey
    Pages 13-39

  4. Imperial Horse Policy and the Publication of Equine Veterinary Medicine Books in Ming China: A Case Study on Yuanheng Liaomaji

    • Zhexin Xu
    Pages 41-65

  5. Medieval Animals: The Fast and the Slow

    • Gerhard Jaritz
    Pages 67-80

  6. Animals Between Authors and the Natural World in Giovanni da San Gimignano’s Liber de exemplis et similitudinibus rerum

    • Beatrice Amelotti
    Pages 81-94

  7. Always Angular and Never Straight: Medieval Snakes in Human Graves?

    • Monika Milosavljević
    Pages 95-119

  8. Perpetual Preys: Pursuing the Bonnacon Across Space and Time

    • Zsuzsanna Papp Reed
    Pages 121-149

  9. What’s in a Noun? A Short Caveat Regarding the Difficulties of Identifying Medieval Animals in Texts

    • Richard Trachsler
    Pages 151-166

  10. Exotic Encounters: Vikings and Faraway Species in Motion

    • Csete Katona
    Pages 167-177

  11. The Question of Feathers in the Early Modern Cabinet of Curiosities (Sixteenth–Seventeenth Centuries)

    • Myriam Marrache-Gouraud
    Pages 179-187

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 189-193
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About this book

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'.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Osteoarchaeological Research Laboratory, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

    László Bartosiewicz

  • Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Vienna, Austria

    Alice M. Choyke

About the editors

László Bartosiewicz is Professor at Stockholm University, Sweden.

Alice Mathea Choyke is Associate Professor at the Central European University, Austria.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Medieval Animals on the Move

  • Book Subtitle: Between Body and Mind

  • Editors: László Bartosiewicz, Alice M. Choyke

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63888-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63887-0Published: 25 February 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63890-0Published: 25 February 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-63888-7Published: 24 February 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 193

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: History of Medieval Europe, Cultural History, Social History

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