“Who Will Break The Deer?”: Lord and Huntsman in Medieval English Hunting Ritual
“Who Will Break The Deer?”: Lord and Huntsman in Medieval English Hunting Ritual By Ryan Judkins Hayes Forum Conference Paper (2009) Abstract: The…
Leonardo Da Vinci’s Representation of Animals in His Works
Leonardo studied both the anatomy and physiology of animals in order to render them with scientific precision.
Dogs in graves – a question of symbolism?
A 9th century female boat-grave is the starting point for a discussion about dogs in Scandinavian graves from c. 500-1100 AD.
Animal Trials: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Animal Trials: A Multidisciplinary Approach Dinzelbacher, Peter Journal of Interdisciplinary History, xxxii:3 (Winter, 2002) Abstract This contribution discusses a phenomenon that is ignored…
Birds in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg
Birds in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg By Charles Vaurie The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 29, no. 6 (1971)…
Frederick’s Menagerie
Frederick’s Menagerie Refling, Mary A Conference Paper Read at the Second Annual Robert Dombrowski Italian Conference, September 17-18, (2005) Abstract Exotic animals have…
Ceramics in the Medieval Garden
Ceramics in the medieval garden Moorehouse, S. A. “Ceramics in the Medieval Garden” Garden Archaeology ed. Brown, A. E. Council for British Archaeology,…
Misconceptions about Beast Fables and Beast Tales, and the Role of the Fox in All of It
The reason why animals represent humans in these stories is because this gives the author a chance to express his or her opinion about certain people or societies. However, there are significant differences between beats tales and beast fables which make it impossible to mistake the one for the other.
The Middle Ages on the block: animals, Guilds and meat in the medieval period
Understanding the place of butchery in the medieval period requires a more in depth appraisal of the place of animals in medieval English culture. Fortunately, this period is perhaps one of the most interesting in terms of the lines of information available for this assessment. The rich historical evidence has led to research detailing the manufacture and uses of tools; the animals acquired and eaten in a number of different social contexts and accounts relating to the organisation of butchery.
Practical Chivalry: The Training of Horses for Tournaments and Warfare
Practical Chivalry: The Training of Horses for Tournaments and Warfare By Carroll Gillmor Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, Vol.13 (1992) Introduction: Inventions harness…
Perceptions versus reality: changing attitudes towards pets in medieval and post-medieval England
In 1994 a survey of pet ownership within the European Union revealed that there were a startling 36 million pet dogs, 35 million pet cats and 173 other pet species
Sandpipers as grave gifts in the Early Middle Ages
The early medieval pre-Christian inhabitants of the northern coastal area of the Netherlands may have perceived a similar link between the human soul and waders.
Sheep and goats in Norse paganism
At Odin’s Valhalla the well-known goat Heidrun eats leaves, and clear mead fl ows from her udder into the beakers of the warriors.
Break a Leg: Animal Health and Welfare in Medieval, Emden, Germany
The presented study investigates the pathologically changed animal bones from medieval Emden, Germany.
Catṡlechta and other medieval legal material relating to cats
The purpose of this article is to edit and translate the short passages in their entirety so as to make the primary material readily available.
Livestock in the Brehon Laws
The content of Brehon Law is as varied as the life of the people, and ranges from law of the person to the regulation of almost trivial details of farming.
Fishes and other aquatic species in the Byzantine literature: Classification, terminology and scientific names
Fish was a substantial food item during antiquity and the Middle Ages for the people living around the Mediterranean area, as it is considered of high nutritional value.
Killing Cats in the Medieval Period: An Unusual episode in the history of Cambridge, England
Were they viewed as pets or pests? How important were they in the extermination of vermin? How much value was put on their skins? And were they ever eaten?
Ŭng Kol Pang, a 14th century Korean treatise on falconry
The earliest evidence for falconry in ancient Korea is found on a 5th-6th century AD tomb wall at Jilin Sheng.
Prosecuting animals in Medieval Europe : possible explanations
From the ninth to the nineteenth century, more than two hundred well-recorded animal trials took place in Western Europe.
“Bad to the bone”? The Unnatural History of Monstrous Medieval Whales
The image of the monstrous whale pervades most medieval textual traditions on cetaceans, but historians have not explored the impact of these cultural perceptions on the use of whales in the medieval world. This paper considers how concepts of the monstrous whale impacted, if at all, the use of whales in the medieval North Atlantic.
Dogs, cats and horses in the Scottish medieval town
This paper is concerned with three domesticated species — the dog, cat and horse — and reviews the nature of their relationships with town dwellers.