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 |
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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-a | Teaching Horses to Eat Indian Food: Some Problems in Importing Horses into Medieval India (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Education |
Paper 1816-b | (Un)Trained Instinct: Animal-Human Relations in the Luttrell Psalter (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Daily Life, Education |
Paper 1816-c | How to Ride the Zodiac Horse: Teaching Horse / Human Anatomy in New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M.735 (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Education, Medicine |
Paper 1816-d | The Second Family Bestiary: Between Patristic Philosophy and Scholasticism (Language: English) 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. |