IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 1114: Moving on down the Road: Information Pathways and Animal Mobility in Medieval Europe

Sponsor:	Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Organiser:	Alice Choyke, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Moderator/Chair:	Alice Choyke, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Paper 1114-a	Mobile Swine and Inter-Monastery Animal Exchange in Late Medieval Hungary (Language: English) Laszlo Ferenczi, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest Index terms: Economics - Rural, Monasticism
Paper 1114-b	Sourcing Materials: New Methods of Species Identification, and their Potential Application to the Study of Raw Material Acquisition in Early Medieval Bone Industry (Language: English) Steven Ashby, Department of Archaeology, University of York Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Daily Life
Abstract	As people moved around the face of medieval Europe they were not alone. Animals came with them as herded animals, food, mode of transportation, and as raw materials. As they moved down roads and over rivers and mountains animals were agents of environmental change, catalysts for changing cultural attitudes, lynch-pins of economic processes, and markers of wealth. Some exotic or non-native animals were as transformed in the minds of people who newly encountered them or had only heard about them from a distance. The effects of such movement on human-animal interactions and human perceptions of these animals will be explored in this session.