Medievalists.net » Animals http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 17:44:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Medical Lore in the Bestiaries http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/14/medical-lore-in-the-bestiaries/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/14/medical-lore-in-the-bestiaries/#comments Sat, 14 Nov 2015 05:31:50 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=62515 Some time in the first part of the Christian era, perhaps as early as the second century, there emerged a curious collection of zoological fables and religious moralizations called Physiologus.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/14/medical-lore-in-the-bestiaries/feed/ 0 Shrews, Rats, and a Polecat in the ‘Pardoner’s Tale’ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/11/shrews-rats-and-a-polecat-in-the-pardoners-tale/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/11/shrews-rats-and-a-polecat-in-the-pardoners-tale/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2015 20:12:37 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=62458 The animals of particular interest to us are creatures that function in two distinct ways: as familiar dead metaphors and as familiar live animals.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/11/shrews-rats-and-a-polecat-in-the-pardoners-tale/feed/ 0 Old Companions, Noble Steeds: Why dogs and horses were buried at an Early Medieval settlement along the Old Rhine http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/10/old-companions-noble-steeds-why-dogs-and-horses-were-buried-at-and-early-medieval-settlement-along-the-old-rhine/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/10/old-companions-noble-steeds-why-dogs-and-horses-were-buried-at-and-early-medieval-settlement-along-the-old-rhine/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2015 02:41:24 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=62438 Excavations at the Early Medieval site of Oegstgeest, located in the Dutch Rhine estuary, have yielded the burials of three horses and three dogs

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/10/old-companions-noble-steeds-why-dogs-and-horses-were-buried-at-and-early-medieval-settlement-along-the-old-rhine/feed/ 0 Pets in the Middle Ages: Evidence from Encyclopedias and Dictionaries http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/04/pets-in-the-middle-ages-evidence-from-encyclopedias-and-dictionaries/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/04/pets-in-the-middle-ages-evidence-from-encyclopedias-and-dictionaries/#comments Sat, 05 Sep 2015 04:14:14 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=60862 How, then, did people in the High and Late Middle Ages categorize the relationships between people and animals?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/04/pets-in-the-middle-ages-evidence-from-encyclopedias-and-dictionaries/feed/ 0 ‘There Came a Hart in at the Chamber Door’: Medieval Deer as Pets http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/22/there-came-a-hart-in-at-the-chamber-door-medieval-deer-as-pets/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/22/there-came-a-hart-in-at-the-chamber-door-medieval-deer-as-pets/#comments Sat, 22 Aug 2015 20:42:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=60539 John of Maidstone paid a visit to Gregory de Rokesle, then mayor of London. With him, he brought some writs from court, which he left on a counter in Gregory's chamber, presumably for his review, before they were dispatched to Boston and elsewhere. This routine matter was disrupted, however, when a hart (the male red deer), which was in the house, entered the chamber and devoured the writs.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/27/medieval-pest-control/feed/ 0 Human-Bovine Plagues in the Early Middle Ages http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/21/human-bovine-plagues-in-the-early-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/21/human-bovine-plagues-in-the-early-middle-ages/#comments Thu, 21 May 2015 20:22:13 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=58348 In other words, when spreading among cattle, a now-extinct morbillivirus episodically colonized and spread in human populations during the early Middle Ages.

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