IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1329: The Familiar Animal and the Animal 'Other', II: Negotiating Species in the Wider Medieval World
Wednesday 5 July 2017, 16.30-18.00
Organiser: | Sunny Harrison, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
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Moderator/Chair: | Harriet Jean Evans, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
Paper 1329-a | Rotting Blood and Frightened Children: Integrating Horses Into the Negotiated Spaces of Later Medieval Cities (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Urban, Geography and Settlement Studies, Medicine, Social History |
Paper 1329-b | Virtuous Bees and Unprincipled Humans in Medieval China (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Social History |
Paper 1329-c | Animal Souls in Medical Theory, c. 1300 (Language: English) Index terms: Medicine, Philosophy, Science |
Abstract | This session will build on the sociocultural analysis of session I and consider the various ways in which animals' familiarity and otherness was understood and negotiated in medieval society. It will use difference and similarity to articulate the borders between species and consider the many tensions and concerns present in what was essentially a multi-species society. Papers will consider the representation and realities of living cheek-by-jowl with animals in later medieval cities, the use of animals as familiar and 'other' in philosophical writing and medical theory, and the comparison of bees and beekeepers in medieval China. |