Medieval Animals on the Move

Between Body and Mind

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-02-25
Mått:148 x 210 x 17 mm
Vikt:393 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:193
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030638870

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

Innehållsförteckning

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 Milosavljević.- 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 (Sixteenth–Seventeenth Centuries); Myriam Marrache-Gouraud.