Medieval Animals On The Move: Between Body And Mind

Description

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'. Preface......Page 5 Contents......Page 7 List of Contributors......Page 9 List of Figures......Page 11 List of Tables......Page 15 Chapter 1: Introduction: Animals Stepping off the Page......Page 16 References......Page 25 Introduction......Page 28 Legal Texts......Page 29 Documents......Page 30 Jarðabók......Page 31 Archaeology......Page 32 Results......Page 34 Discussion......Page 45 Conclusions......Page 48 Primary Sources......Page 50 Secondary Sources......Page 51 Introduction......Page 55 Historical Background......Page 56 Source Material......Page 58 Authorship......Page 59 Structure, Content, and Audiences......Page 60 Horses in Warfare......Page 62 The Ming Dynasty Postal Network......Page 63 Horses and Taxation......Page 66 YHLMJ and the Ming Dynasty’s Horse Administration Policy in the Nanzhili Region......Page 67 Horse Populations in Nanzhili......Page 68 The Postal Network in Numbers......Page 69 Regulating Horse Households......Page 71 Climate Change......Page 74 References......Page 76 Chapter 4: Medieval Animals: The Fast and the Slow......Page 80 Primary Sources......Page 91 Secondary Sources......Page 92 Chapter 5: Animals Between Authors and the Natural World in Giovanni da San Gimignano’s Liber de exemplis et similitudinibus rerum......Page 94 Conclusions......Page 105 Secondary Sources......Page 106 Introduction......Page 108 Materials and Methods......Page 109 Discussion......Page 117 Biological Arguments......Page 119 Archaeological Analogies......Page 120 An Early Medieval Phenomenon......Page 121 Conclusions......Page 125 References......Page 127 Introduction......Page 133 The Pursuit......Page 134 The Tweakings......Page 151 The Meanings......Page 156 References......Page 158 Introduction......Page 162 Identifying Animals in the Written Record......Page 163 Far-Away Animals Moving into the Record......Page 164 Challenges in the Identification of Ordinary Animals......Page 166 The Portrait of a Medieval Animal......Page 169 Conclusions......Page 174 References......Page 175 Introduction......Page 178 Scandinavia......Page 179 Exotic Animals from the ‘West’......Page 180 Exotic Animals from the ‘East’......Page 183 Primary Sources......Page 186 Secondary Sources......Page 187 Introduction......Page 189 Feathers in Motion......Page 191 Display Options and the Organization of Knowledge......Page 193 Conclusions......Page 195 References......Page 196 Index......Page 198