Medieval Animals on the Move

1. Introduction: Animals Stepping off the Page; László Bartosiewicz and Alice Choyke. - 2. The Forgotten Pigs and Goats of Iceland in a North Atlantic Context; Bernadette McCooey. - 3. Imperial Horse Policy and the Publication of Equine Veterinary Medicine Books in Ming China: A Case Study on Yuanheng Liaomaji; Zhexin Xu. - 4. Medieval Animals: The Fast and the Slow; Gerhard Jaritz; 5. Animals between Authors and the Natural World in Giovanni da San Gimignano s Liber de exemplis et similitudinibus rerum; Beatrice Amelotti. - 6. Always Angular and Never Straight: Medieval Snakes in Human Graves? ; Monika Milosavljevi . - 7. Perpetual Preys: Pursuing the Bonacon Across Space and Time; Zsuzsanna Papp Reed. - 8. What s in a Noun? A Short Caveat Regarding the Difficulties of Identifying Medieval Animals in Texts; Richard Trachsler. - 9. Exotic Encounters: Vikings and Faraway Species in Motion; Csete Katona. - 10. The Question of Feathers in the EarlyModern Cabinet of Curiosities (Sixteenth Seventeenth Centuries); Myriam Marrache-Gouraud.