László Bartosiewicz and Alice Mathea Choyke (eds.) Medieval Animals on the Move: Between Body and Mind. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. ISBN 978-3-030-63887-0

 

https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030638870 

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'.

CONTENTS:

Introduction: Animals Stepping off the Page -- László Bartosiewicz (et al.)

The Forgotten Pigs and Goats of Iceland in a North Atlantic Context -- Bernadette McCooey

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

Medieval Animals: The Fast and the Slow -- Gerhard Jaritz

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

Always Angular and Never Straight: Medieval Snakes in Human Graves? -- Monika Milosavljević

Perpetual Preys: Pursuing the Bonnacon Across Space and Time -- Zsuzsanna Papp Reed

What’s in a Noun? A Short Caveat Regarding the Difficulties of Identifying Medieval Animals in Texts -- Richard Trachsler

Exotic Encounters: Vikings and Faraway Species in Motion -- Csete Katona

The Question of Feathers in the Early Modern Cabinet of Curiosities (Sixteenth–Seventeenth Centuries) -- Myriam Marrache-Gouraud