IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 1315: Disabled and Disabling Animals

Sponsor:	Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest/Wien
Organiser:	Gerhard Jaritz, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Moderator/Chair:	Alice Choyke, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Paper 1315-a	Horses, Hawks, and Other One-Legged Beasts: Injuries to Animals in Medieval Welsh Law (Language: English) Edgar Rops, Independent Scholar, Latvia Index terms: Daily Life, Law
Paper 1315-b	Send Forth the Foot of the Cow: Deliverance and Piety in a Medieval Portuguese Cult (Language: English) David Luís Aniceto Soares, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Index terms: Daily Life, Religious Life
Abstract	Disability of animals can be connected with their physical inabilities that remove them from economic exploitation by humans. It can reflect notions of what disability means for humans, in metaphorical, symbolic, and normative ways. Finally, the practical aspects can certainly interact with the notional ones creating new categories of what it meant to be a disabled medieval animal. This also has to be seen connected with disabilities of humans caused by animals. The seion will concentrate on both aspects.