Multidisciplinary research on medieval animals
Harriet J. Evans Tang, Animal-Human Relationships in Medieval Iceland. From Farm-Settlement to Sagas (Cambridge, D. S. Brewer, 2022), 244 pp, 11 figures, 1 map. ISBN 978 1 84384 643 7. Series: Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages, vol. 7. https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781843846437/animal-human-relationships-in-medieval-iceland/ The monograph contributes to the growing body of literature inspired by the...
Editor: Mathilde van Dijk (University of Groningen) Power over the animals has been a characteristic of saints from their beginnings in the Early Church. By no means restricted to Christian saints, but including similar figures in other religions, this volume will explore how the connection between those very special humans and animals is...
The University of Wales Press series on Medieval Animals explores the historical and cultural impact of animals in this formative period, with the aim of developing new insights, analysing cultural, social and theological tensions and revealing their remarkable resonances with our contemporary world. The series investigates ideas about animals from the fifth century...
Animals in Medieval Context, Trivent Publishing’s new series on medieval animals, is conceived to bring together scholars interested in the manifold ways humans have related to and depended on non-human animals for physical and spiritual existence in medieval Europe and beyond. The aim of the series is to bring together publications on all...
Recent books published in 2020 and 2021 dealing with Medieval animals. Falconry in the Mediterranean Context During the Pre-Modern Era, edited by Charles Burnett and Baudouin Van den Abeele. Bibliotheca Cynegetica 9. Genève: Droz, 2021. Information: https://www.droz.org/suisse/product/978260006236718 chapters, by various contributors.Abstract: La fauconnerie a été une activité de rois, empereurs, émirs, khans, marchands et...
The Medieval Animal Data-network organizes as usual several sessions and one round table during the International Medieval Congress (Leeds, 5-9 July 2021). Tuesday 6 July 2021: 09.00-10.30 Session 515 Title Domesticities Date/Time Tuesday 6 July 2021: 09.00-10.30 Sponsor Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest/Wien Organiser Gerhard Jaritz, Department of...
Medieval Animals on the Move: Between Body and Mind comprises a selection of peer-reviewed papers based on the 2017 conference of the Medieval Animal Database-Network (MAD), organized at the Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies of Stockholm University, “Animals on the Move in the Middle Ages”. MAD has organized a series of small...
Aquafauna has recently been the topic of several conferences and publications focusing on zoological knowledge, its transmission, and transformation. Our workshop aims to investigate the imagery of aquatic animals in literature, their symbolism, their metaphorical use, and widespread views and misconceptions about such animals. We would like to propose a global perspective limited...
The conference Transmission of knowledge on fish and aquatic animals, texts and images (Antiquity, Middle Ages, 16th century) will be the closing event of GDRI Zoomathia, which ends at the end of 2021. In 2017, an international symposium was held in the International Cultural Center of Cerisy-la-Salle, entitled Aquatic Animals and Monsters of...
Ghersetti, A., O. Capezio, and F. Bellino, eds. L’Arca Di Noè. Studi in Onore Di Giovanni Canova. Quaderni Di Studi Arabi, n. s. 14. Roma: Istituto per l’Oriente, 2019. http://www.ipocan.it/index.php/it/quaderni-di-studi-arabi. Table of contents Antonella GHERSETTI, Oriana CAPEZIO, Francesca BELLINO, L’arca Noè. Studi in onore di Giovanni Canova, 5-12 Eros BALDISSERA, Giovanni Canova: i...
Reinardus. Yearbook of the International Reynard Society, Volume 29 (2017) [published May 2018] Table of contents Articles Formes brèves et mise en prose: Le cas des Herberies Paola Cifarelli, 1–15 “In dorso colorem habet inter viridem et ceruleum…”: Liber rerum e osservazione zoologica diretta nell’enciclopedia di Tommaso di Cantimpré Mattia Cipriani, 16–98 “Au...
Urban space constitutes a place where people and animals live together in close proximity with each other, creating changing landscapes of co-existence, conflict, mutual dependencies and exploitation. The medieval animals found in the articles of Animaltown: Beasts in Medieval Urban Space, appear in text and image, as well as archaeological find materials in...
The Medieval Animal Data-network organizes as usual two sessions and one round table during the International Medieval Congress (Leeds, 2-5 July 2018). Session 108 Title Beautiful Animals Date/Time Monday 2 July 2018: 11.15-12.45 Abstract The qualities of animals play an important role in their medieval textual and visual representations. One of them is...
Place: Campus Paris Ouest, MAE, Bâtiment Max Weber, salle séminaire 2 Nanterre, France (92) Date: Thursday, March 15, 2018, 9h30-16h Contact : Fabrice Guizard (fguizard [at] gmail [dot] com) French abstract: http://calenda.org/430407 PDF Flyer Programme 9h30-12h00 Fabrice Guizard (UMR 7041) Introduction Laure Fontana (CNRS-UMR 7041) Les groupes humains et les rennes au Paléolithique supérieur en...
Date : Friday March 9th 2018, 9h30-16h. University of Caen Normandy, campus 1, Esplanade de la Paix, MRSH, room SH 027. Organization : Craham, ICHTYA research programme (http://www.unicaen.fr/crahm/spip.php?article969 Programme : https://craham.hypotheses.org/1530 French abstract Quiconque travaille sur les créatures aquatiques dans les textes ou dans les arts figurés de l’Antiquité, du Moyen Âge et...
Corps hybrides aux frontières de l’humain au Moyen Âge Conference, Université de Louvain-la-Neuve, 19-20 April 2018 Call for papers In the Middle Ages, the integrity of the body constituted a mirror of the universe and a model to understand nature and to reinforce current social and political structures. Deformation and metamorphosis posed a...
ZOOGRAPHEIN – Depicting and describing animals in ancient Greece, Rome and beyond Cornell University, Ithaca NY September 8-10, 2017 In collaboration with the research network ZOOMATHIA Call for papers deadline: February 1, 2017 Greek and Roman culture is replete with verbal and visual descriptions and depictions of animals, from Herodotus’ gold-digging ants or...
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 The DEADLINE for submissions is 28 February, 2017. M(edieval) A(nimal) D(ata-networks) (http://www.imareal.sbg.ac.at/mad/ ; http://mad.hypotheses.org/) was conceived as a way to bring together scholars interested in the...
Conference organized by : Cristiana Franco (Siena, Università per Stranieri) Marco Vespa (Università di Siena, Università di Pisa, Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Nice) Arnaud Zucker (Nice, Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS) October 27-28, 2016 • Università per Stranieri, Siena (Italy) October 27, Thursday Research network meeting October 28, Friday CONFERENCE Towards multidisciplinary research projects...
Around Timotheos of Gaza / Autour de Timothée de Gaza Journée d’étude organisée par Arnaud Zucker & Jean-Charles Ducene 4 novembre 2016 • 9h-15h30 MSHS, Saint-Jean d’Angely 3, Amphi 31 NICE (France) Late Antiquity Greek zoological sources (IIe-VIe s. ap. J.-C.) in syriac and arabic literature (VIIIe-XVe s.) Les sources grecques tardives (IIe-VIe...
Animals in Medieval Context, Trivent Publishing’s new series
September 13, 2021
Calenda: animal in the Middle Ages
