IMC 2026: Sessions
Session 705: Travelling Species, III: Leonine Legacies
Tuesday 7 July 2026, 14:15-15:45
| Sponsor: | Medieval Animal Data-Network (MAD) |
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| Organiser: | Sven Gins, Faculteit Religie, Cultuur en Maatschappij, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Sven Gins, Faculteit Religie, Cultuur en Maatschappij, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
| Paper 705-a | 'Degraded' to Dogs: Becoming Animal and the Role of the Canine in Arthurian Romances (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Celtic, Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Middle English |
| Paper 705-b | A Beast's Journey: Tracing the Lion in French and Icelandic Romance (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
| Paper 705-c | Crypt Creatures: Postmedieval Explorations of Medieval Animal Heritage (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Sculpture, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | Medieval history teems with animals, creatures both mundane and fantastic. None of these species are fixed. They ‘travel’: between geographies, minds, professions, cultures, and temporalities. Between these varied contexts, a given animal’s (imagined) appearance, behaviour, and meaning often differs. This panel seeks to assess these processes of differing and shed light on how these forms of movement render the idea of what it means to be a particular kind of animal flexible. How did different cultures make meaning with (or about) particular animals? And how did animals themselves move—physically, imaginatively, and temporally—across the medieval world? |