IMC 2024: Sessions

Session 148: Animal-Like: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Sponsor:	MAD (Medieval Animal Data Network), Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest/Wien
Organiser:	Gerhard Jaritz, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest/Wien
Moderator/Chair:	Alice Choyke, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest/Wien
Paper 148-a	Animal-Like: Stubbornness and Old Customs in Medieval Poland (Language: English) Andrea Vanina Neyra, Instituto de Historia Antigua y Medieval 'José Luis Romero', Universidad de Buenos Aires Index terms: Daily Life, Law and Social History
Paper 148-b	Being Bear: Bearskins, Warmth, and Protection in Medieval Iceland and Scandinavia (Language: English) Harriet Jean Evans Tang, Department of Archaeology, Durham University / Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Daily Life and Language and Literature - Scandinavian
Abstract	The session concerns the kinds of human-animal relations and comparisons found in bestiaries, saints legends, didactic literature, images, etc. etc. where (specific) human behavior is seen as close to that of animals for better and for worse.