Animaltown : beasts in medieval urban space / edited by Alice M. Choyke, Gerhard Jaritz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Choyke, Alice Mathea, editor.

Jaritz, Gerhard, 1949- editor.

Series:

BAR international series ; 2858.

BAR international series ; 2858

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-animal relationships--History--Congresses.

Human-animal relationships.

Urban animals--Social aspects--History--Congresses.

Urban animals.

Archaeology, Medieval.

Social aspects.

History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vii, 209 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK : BAR Publishing, 2017.

Contents:

Introduction / Alice M. Choyke

Interpreting urban animal contexts. What makes a medieval urban animal bone assemblage look urban? Reflections as feature types and recurrent patterns from lower Austria and Vienna / Günther Karl Kunst

Like a headless chicken: meaning, medium and context in medieval urban taphonomy / László Bartosiewicz

Horseflesh and beaver pelts: aspects of faunal studies in medieval Novgorod and its region / Mark Maltby

The Diet of Ipswich from the Middle Saxon through the medieval periods / Pam J. Crabtree

Animals as symbol and urban reality. Dogs in church / Gerhard Jaritz

Pigs in medieval cities: Saint Anthony's unusual attribute / Laura Fenelli

Animals as presents in late-medieval Livonia / Anu Mänd

Norm and practice and urban animals. Oxen, pigs and sheep in the medieval city: analysis of regulations concerning domestic animals in statutes of medieval Dalmation towns / Hrvoje Kekez

All the priests' horses and all the priests' hens...: animals in the households of late medieval Hungarian urban clergy / Katalin Szende

"Drunkenness is the mother of forgetfulness, anger causes injuries": animal welfare in late-medieval English urban society / Briony Aitchison

Suburban husbandry: animals in the landscape of Trim, County Meath, Ireland / Fiona Beglane

Domestic and wild animals in urban settings. Faunal exploitation patterns in urban settlements in medieval Moldavia / Luminita Bejenaru

Animals in medieval urban lives: York as a case study / Terry O'Connor

Animals in Italian medieval towns: from late antiquity to the late Middle Ages / Frank Salvadori

Urban jungle? Wild mammals in medieval towns / Aleksander Pluskowski

Animals and the urban elite. What is a peacock doing in a medieval city? Analysing visual representations of animals in urban space in the late Middle Ages / Isabella Nicka

"...For I have brought to you the fugitive animals of the desert": animals and representations of the Constantinopolitan Imperial Authority in Two Poems by Manuel Philes / Florin Leonte

Zooarchaeological research from an elite urban building in medieval Durrës (Albania) / Antonietta Buglione, Giovanni De Venuto and Barbara Sassi

Meat consumption by the Christian population in the Buda Castle Town district in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / László Daróczi-Szabó and Márta Daróczi-Szabó

List of contributors.

Notes:

" ... comprises peer-reviewed papers based on a conference held in 2008, 'Fauna and Medieval Urban Space', at the Medieval Studies Department of the Central European University and organized by the editors ..."--Page 1.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781407315720

1407315722

OCLC:

987305981