Program : Animals on the Move in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period (Stockholm, 10-11 Nov. 2017)
INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF THE MEDIEVAL ANIMAL DATA NETWORK (MAD)
Animals on the Move in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
10–11 November, 2017, Stockholm University, Sweden
Program
November 9 Thursday Arrival to Stockholm
15:00 – 18:00 : Registration open at the University, Room 334
November 10 Friday
9:00 – 9:30 : Registration
9:30 – 10:00 : Opening address
Topic 1: Travelling animal imagery
10:00 – 10:20 : Beatrice Amelotti: The use of animals in Giovanni da San Gimignano’s Liber de exempiis et similitudinibus rerum
10:20 – 10:40 : Joana Antunes: The restless ape. A journey through Portuguese medieval and early modern art
10:40 – 11:00 : Coffee break
Topic 2: Animals on the Road
11:00 – 11:20 : Gerhard Jaritz: Medieval slow animals, medieval quick animals
11:20 – 11:40 : Ylva Telldahl: The horse as transporters of beliefs and as iconographic symbols. Is animal colour used to enhance the meaning of medieval stories?
11:40 – 12:00 : Xu Zhexin: Imperial Postal System and the Publication of Equine Veterinary Medicine Books in Ming China: A Case Study on Yuanhen Liaomaji
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 – 13:20 : Tanja Tolar: The image of camels in Western art between 12th and 14th century
13:20 – 13:40 : Tracey Eckersley: Sacred Sumpters: Depictions of Camels and Horses in Eastern Late Antique Pilgrimage Churches
13:40 – 14:00 : Eve Rannamäe: Mobility of livestock in medieval and Early Modern Estonia, with an emphasis on sheep (Ovis aries)
14:00 – 14:20 : Coffee break
Topic 3: Herding and trade
14:20 – 14:40 : Bernadette McCooey: The lesser spotted species of Icelandic farming
14:40 – 15:00 : Hanna Kivikero: Distribution of animal products in early modern Sweden
15:00 – 15:20 : Ida Hast: The animals in Sala mining village, Sweden: an insight into 16-17th century meat consumption
15:20 – 15:40 : Erika Gál: A stream of meat and pleasure: birds in medieval Hungary
18:00 Conference dinner (optional) at “Järnvägsrestaurangen”, Östra station
(at T14 station “Tekniska högskolan”)
November 11 Saturday
Topic 4: Dangerous animals?
10:00 – 10:20 : Megan Cavell: Mobile Predator, Static Prey: Literary Approaches to Wolves in Anglo-Saxon England
10:20 – 10:40 : Laura Gelfand: Saints Encountering Wolves in the Medieval World
10:40 – 11:00 : Richard Trachsler: The Eye and the Spots. Observations on the Lynx in Medieval Literature
11:00 – 11:20 : Coffee break
11:20 – 11:40 : Alice M. Choyke: The Hunter chases the Prey: Dog and Hair pairings in medieval Europe and possible precurors
11:40 – 12:00 : Christopher Nichols: Dog Remains at the Cemetery of Valsgärde, Uppland, Sweden
12:00 – 12:40 : Monika Milosavljević: Always Angular and Never Straight: Medieval Snakes in Human Graves?
12:40 – 13:40 : Lunch break
Topic 5: Circulating animal parts
13:40 – 14:00 : Myriam Marrache-Gouraud: Feather issues in Early Modern cabinets of curiosity (XVI-XVIIth centuries)
14:20 – 14:40 : Ingrid Matschinegg: Antlers in the Parlour and other animal-derived objects in the interior. Observations from late medieval and early modern Austrian Inventories
14:40 – 15:00 : Johnny Karlsson: Exotic animal raw materials at Sigtuna, Sweden
15:00 – 15:20 : Coffee break
15:20 – 16:00 : General discussion: data base development, publication, next meeting