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

• ​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.

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

• ​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.

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

• ​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.