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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 1816: Teaching Animals

Thursday 8 July 2021, 16.30-18.00

Sponsor:M(edieval) A(nimal) D(ata Network), Central European University, Budapest/Wien
Organiser:Alice Choyke, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Moderator/Chair:Gerhard Jaritz, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Paper 1816-aTeaching Horses to Eat Indian Food: Some Problems in Importing Horses into Medieval India
(Language: English)
Anastasija Ropa, Department of Management & Communication Science, Latvian Academy of Sport Education, Riga
Index terms: Daily Life, Education
Paper 1816-b(Un)Trained Instinct: Animal-Human Relations in the Luttrell Psalter
(Language: English)
Ashby Kinch, Department of English, University of Montana
Index terms: Art History - Painting, Daily Life, Education
Paper 1816-cHow to Ride the Zodiac Horse: Teaching Horse / Human Anatomy in New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M.735
(Language: English)
Miranda Hajduk, English Department / The Graduate Centre, City University of New York
Index terms: Daily Life, Education, Medicine
Paper 1816-dThe Second Family Bestiary: Between Patristic Philosophy and Scholasticism
(Language: English)
Tiago de Oliveira Veloso Silva, Departamento de História, Universidade de Brasília
Index terms: Daily Life, Education, Philosophy
Abstract

The Medieval Animal Data-network is also presenting a session on the way humans teach and train animals. Humans have used animals for their strength, speed, and other valued characteristics. People use training to exploit those intrinsic natural traits and, at the same time, mold animal behavior to conform to human needs and to fit the human image of them. At the same time, animals, whether wild or domesticated have their own agency. Through their individual or general behavior, animals change, or influence human actions in a variety of social contexts. Hints surrounding such complex and entangled aspects of training and teaching can be found in a variety of texts, images, and even in special archaeological materials.