March 31 Thinking with animals
Lorraine Daston, “Intelligences: Angelic, Animal, Human,” in
Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives
on Anthropomorphism, eds. Lorraine Daston and Gregg Mitman (New York:
Columbia University Press, 2005), pp. 37-58.
Peter G. Sobol, “The Shadow of Reason: Explanations of
Intelligent Animal Behavior in the Thirteenth Century,” in The Medieval World of Nature: A Book of Essays, ed. Joyce E.
Salisbury (New York: Garland, 1993), pp. 109-128.
April 2 The Book of Beasts
T.H. White, The
Bestiary: A Book of Beasts (1954; reprint Madison, WI: University of
Wisconsin Press, 2002), online at http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/HistSciTech.Bestiary. Browse “Beasts,” “Birds,” “Reptiles and
Fishes,” and read Appendix, pp. 230-70.
Dan Sperber, “Why are perfect animals, hybrids and monsters
food for symbolic thought?,” Method and
Theory in the Study of Religion 8-2 (1996): 143-69.
Brigitte Resl, "Animals in the Middle Ages," in A Cultural History of Animals in the
Medieval Age, ed. Brigitte Resl (New York: Berg, 2007), Introduction.
April 7 Defining animals I
Albertus Magnus, On
Animals: A Medieval Summa Zoologica, trans. Kenneth F. Kitchell and Irven
Michael Resnick, 2 vols. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999),
vol. 1, book 8, tracts 1-2, 4.1, 5-6 (pp. 667-717, 726-30, 753-773); and vol.
2, book 11 (pp. 857-893).
Pieter De Leemans and Matthew Klemm, "Philosophical
Beliefs," in A Cultural History of
Animals, ed. Resl, chapter 6.
April 9 Defining animals II
Albertus Magnus, On
Animals, vol. 2, book 22, tract 1.5-2 (pp. 1445-1448); book 23 (pp.
1544-47); book 24 (pp. 1655-59); book 25 (pp. 1708-16); and book 26 (pp.
1739-41), and passim.
·
Browse Albert’s lists of animals and see if you
can find one from each category (quadrupeds, birds, aquatic animals, serpents
and vermin) in The Medieval Bestiary:
Animals in the Middle Ages, ed. David Badke, online at http://bestiary.ca/.
Isidore of Seville, The
Etymologies, book 12 (“De animalibus”), trans. Stephen A. Barney
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 247-70.
Pieter Beullens, "Animals in Medieval Science," in
A Cultural History of Animals, ed.
Resl, chapter 5.
April 14 The uses of animals I: Country
Walter of Henley, Husbandry, ed. and trans. Elizabeth
Lamond (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1890), pp. 4-35
M. M. Postan,
“Village Livestock in the Thirteenth Century,” Economic History Review
n.s. 15 (1962): 219-249.
Kathleen Biddick, The
Other Economy: Pastoral Husbandry on a Medieval Estate (Berkeley and Los
Angeles: University of California Press, 1989), pp. 81-128.
John Langdon, “The Economics of Horses and Oxen in Medieval
England,” The Agricultural History Review
30 (1982): 31-40.
David Stone, “The Productivity and Management of Sheep in
Late Medieval England,” The Agricultural
History Review 51.1 (2003): 1-22.
U. Albarella, “Pig Husbandry and Pork Consumption in
Medieval England,” in Food in Medieval
England: Diet and Nutrition, eds. C.M. Woolgar, D. Serjeantson and T.
Waldron (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 72-87.
April 16 The uses of animals II: Town
Catherine Smith, “Dogs, cats and horses in the Scottish
medieval town,” Proceedings of the
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 128 (1998): 859-85.
Kathleen Walker-Meikle, Medieval
Pets (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2012), pp. 55-74, 135-42
Lisa Kiser, “Animals in Medieval Sports, Entertainments and
Menageries,” in A Cultural History of
Animals, ed. Resl, chapter 4.
Ernest Sabine, “Butchering in Mediaeval London,” Speculum 8 (1933): 335-53.
Krish Seetah, “The Middle Ages on the Block: Animals, Guilds
and Meat in the Medieval Period,” in Breaking
and Shaping Beastly Bodies: Animals as Material Culture in the Middle Ages,
ed. Aleksander Pluskowski (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2007), pp. 18-31.
Dale Serjeantson, “Animal Remains and the Tanning Trade,” Diet and Craft in Towns: The evidence of
animal remains from the Roman to the Post-Medieval periods, eds. D.
Serjeantson and T. Waldron, BAR British Series 199 (Oxford: BAR, 1989), pp.
129-46.
Carlo Federici, Anna Di Majo and Marco Palma, “The
Determination of Animal Species Used in Medieval Parchment Making: Non-Destructive
Identification Techniques,” in Roger
Powell: The Compleat Binder, eds. Guy Petherbridge and John L. Sharpe
(Turnhout: Brepols, 1996), pp. 146-53.
Bruce Holsinger, “Of Pigs and Parchment: Medieval Studies
and the Coming of the Animal,” PMLA 124.2
(March 2009): 616-23.
David E. Davis, “The Scarcity of Rats and the Black Death:
An Ecological History,” Journal of
Interdisciplinary History 16.3 (1986): 455-70.
Michael McCormick, “Rats, Communications, and Plague: Toward
and Ecological History,” Journal of
Interdisciplinary History 34.1 (2003): 1-25.
April 21 The uses of animals III: Rabbits and carp,
warrens and fishponds
Mark Bailey, “The Rabbit and the Medieval East Anglian
Economy,” The Agricultural History Review
36 (1988): 1-20.
James Bond, “Rabbits: The case for their medieval
introduction into Britain,” The Local
Historian 18.2 (1988): 53-57.
David Stocker and Margarita Stocker, “Sacred Profanity: The
Theology of Rabbit Breeding and the Symbolic Landscape of the Warren,” World Archeology 28.2 (1996): 265-72
Christopher K. Currie, “The Early History of the Carp and
its Economic Significance in England,” The
Agricultural History Review 39.2 (1991): 97-107.
D. Serjeantson and C.M. Woolgar, “Fish Consumption in
Medieval England,” in Food in Medieval
England: Diet and Nutrition, eds. C.M. Woolgar, D. Serjeantson and T.
Waldron (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 102-130.
Richard C. Hoffman, “The Protohistory of the Pike in Western
Culture,” in The Medieval World of
Nature: A Book of Essays, ed. Joyce E. Salisbury (New York: Garland, 1993),
pp. 61-76.
Richard C. Hoffman, “Carp, Cod, Connections: New Fisheries
in the Medieval European Economy and Environment,” in Animals in Human Histories: The Mirror of Nature and Culture, ed.
Mary J. Henniger-Voss (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2002), pp.
3-55.
April 23 Hunting I: Falconry
An Smets and Baudouin van den Abeele, “Medieval Hunting,” in
A Cultural History of Animals, ed.
Resl, chapter 2.
Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, The Art of Falconry, trans. and ed. Casey E. Wood and F. Marjorie
Fyfe (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1943), Prologue, Book I, chapter 1,
and Book II (pp. 3-7, 105-224).
Albertus Magnus, On
Animals, vol. 2, book 23 (pp. 1572-1621).
Robin S. Oggins, “Falconry and Medieval Social Status,” Mediaevalia 12 (1989, for 1986): 43-55.
Robin S. Oggins, “Falconry and Medieval Views of Nature,” in
The Medieval World of Nature: A Book of
Essays, ed. Joyce E. Salisbury (New York: Garland, 1993), pp. 47-60.
Rachel Hands, “‘The Names of All Manner of Hawks, and To
Whom They Belong,’” Notes and Queries
n.s. 18.3 (1971): 85-88.
April 28 Hunting II: Horses, dogs, deer and wolves
Gaston Phoebus, The Hunting Book of Gaston Phébus: Manuscrit français 616, Paris, Bibliothèque
Nationale (London: Harvey Miller, 1998).
Marcelle Thiébaux,
“The Mediaeval Chase,” Speculum 42 (1967): 260-74.
Marcellet Thiébaux,
The Stag of Love: The Chase in Medieval
Literature (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1974), pp. 17-58.
N.J. Sykes, “The
Impact of the Normans on Hunting Practices in England,” in Food in Medieval England: Diet and Nutrition, eds. C.M. Woolgar, D.
Serjeantson, and T. Waldron (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp.
162-75.
Jean Birrell, “Deer
and Deer Farming in Medieval England,” The
Agricultural History Review 40.2 (1992): 112-26.
Jean Birrell,
“Peasant Deer Poachers in the Medieval Forest,” in Progress and Problems in
Medieval England: Essays in Honor of Edward Miller, eds. Richard Britnell
and John Hatcher (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 68-88.
Aleksander Pluskowski, Wolves
and the Wilderness in the Middle Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2006), pp. 94-109
(“Hunting the Hunters”).
April 30--NO CLASS
Work on your bibliographies, due in class May 5
May 5 Warfare and animals: Horses and doves
Carroll M. Gillmor,
“Practical Chivalry: The Training of Horses for Tournaments and Warfare,” Studies
in Medieval and Renaissance History 13 (o.s. 23, 1992): 5-29.
Ann Hyland, The Medieval Warhorse from Byzantium to the
Crusades (Phoenix Mill, UK: Alan Sutton, 1994), pp. 140-68.
Matthew Bennett,
“The Medieval Warhorse Reconsidered,” in Medieval
Knighthood V: Papers from the sixth Strawberry Hill Conference 1994, eds.
Stephen Church and Ruth Harvey (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 1995), pp. 19-40.
R.H.C. Davis, “The
Warhorses of the Normans,” in Medieval
Warfare 1000-1300, ed. John France (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), pp. 85-100.
Susan B. Edgington,
“The Doves of War: The part played by carrier pigeons in the crusades,” in Autour
de la Première Croisade: Actes du Colloque de la Society for the Study of the
Crusades and the Latin East, ed. Michel Balard, Byzantina Sorbonensia14
(Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1996), pp. 167-75.
May 7 Animals in art: Elephants and apes
G.C Druce, “The
Elephant in Medieval Legend and Art,” Archaeological Journal 76 (1919):
1-73.
Nona C. Flores, “The Mirror of Nature Distorted: The
Medieval Artist’s Dilemma in Depicting Animals,” in The Medieval World of Nature: A Book of Essays, ed. Joyce E.
Salisbury (New York: Garland, 1993), pp. 3-45.
H.W. Janson, Apes and
Ape Lore in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (London: Warburg Institute,
1952), pp. 163-98 and plates XXIII-XXXV (“The Ape in Gothic Marginal Art”).
Brigitte Resl, “Animals in Art in the Middle Ages,” in A Cultural History of Animals, ed. Resl,
chapter 7.
May 12 Animals as symbol: The dove and other birds
of a feather
Hugh of Folieto, The
Medieval Book of Birds: Hugh of Fouilloy’s Aviarium, ed. and trans. Willene
B. Clark (Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies,
1992), pp. 117-255 (odd numbered pages).
Friedrich Ohly, “Problems of Medieval Significs and Hugh of
Folieto’s ‘Dove Miniature’,” in Sensus
Spiritualis: Studies in Medieval Significs and the Philology of Culture,
ed. Samuel Jaffe and trans. Kenneth Northcott (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 2005), chapter 3.
Paul Dutton, “Charlemagne, King of Beasts,” in Charlemagne’s Mustache and Other Cultural
Clusters of a Dark Age (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), pp. 43-68.
May 14 NO CLASS Work
on your research papers!
May 19 Talking animals: Reynard the Fox
Renard the Fox,
trans. from the Old French by Patricia Terry (Berkeley and Los Angeles:
University of California Press, 1992; first published 1983), Branches II & Va : Renard and
Ysengrin the Wolf; Branch I: The
Trial of Renard; and Branch VIII:
Renard’s Pilgrimage, pp. 25-154.
Carl Pyrdum, Got Medieval, April 12, 2008: <http://www.gotmedieval.com/2008/04/nsfw-if-we-dont-spy-on-some-acronyms-the-terrorists-will-win.html>
May 21 Animals on
trial
Peter Dinzelbacher, “Animal Trials: A multidisciplinary
approach,” Journal of Interdisciplinary
History 32.3 (Winter 2002): 405-21.
Piers Beirnes, “The Law is an Ass: Reading E.P. Evans’ The Medieval Prosecution and Capital
Punishment of Animals,” Society and
Animals: Social Scientific Studies of the Human Experience of Other Animals
2 (1994): 27-46.
Esther Cohen, “Animals in Medieval Perceptions: The image of
the ubiquitous other,” in Animals and
Human Society: Changing Perspectives, eds. Aubrey Manning and James Serpell
(London and New York: Routledge, 1994), pp. 59-80.
Jody Enders, “Homicidal Pigs and the Antisemitic
Imagination,” Exemplaria 14.1 (2002):
201-38.
E.P. Evans, The Criminal
Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals (London: Faber and Faber,
1906), Appendix F: Chronological List of Excommunications and Prosecutions of
Animals from the ninth to the nineteenth century, pp. 265-86.
May 26 Animals and disgust, especially cats
Alexandra Cuffel, Gendering
Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame
Press, 2007), pp. 198-239 (Chapter 6: Signs of the Beast).
Sara Lipton, “Jews, heretics, and the sign of the cat in the
Bible moralisée,” Word and Image 8.4 (1992): 362-77.
Douglas Gray, “Notes on Some Medieval Mystical, Magical and
Moral Cats,” Langland, the Mystics and
the Medieval English Religious Tradition: Essays in Honour of S.S. Hussey,
ed. Helen Philips (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1990), pp. 185-202.
Malcolm H. Jones, “Cats and Cat-skinning in Late Medieval
Art and Life,” in Fauna and Flora in the Middle Ages: Studies
of the Medieval Environment and its Impact on the Human Mind, ed. Sieglinde
Hartmann (Frankfort am Main: Peter Lang, 2007), pp. 97-112.
Barbara Newman, “The Cattes
Tale: A Chaucer Apocryphon,” The
Chaucer Review 26.4 (1992): 411-23.
May 28 Saints, dragons, and other monsters
Rudolf Wittkower, “Marvels of the East: A Study in the
History of Monster,” Journal of the
Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 5 (1942): 159-97.
Samantha Riches, St.
George: Hero, Martyr and Myth (Stroud: Sutton, 2000), pp. 140-78.
Samantha Riches, “Encountering the Monstrous: Saints and
Dragons in Medieval Thought,” in The
Monstrous Middle Ages, eds. Bettina Bildhauer and Robert Mills (Cardiff:
University of Wales Press, 2003), pp. 196-218.
Howard Shilton, “The Nature of Beowulf’s Dragon,” Bulletin of the John Rylands University
Library of Manchester 79.3 (1997): 67-77.
Peregrine Horden, “Disease, dragons and saints: The
management of epidemics in the Dark Ages,” Epidemics
and Ideas: Essays on the historical perception of pestilence, eds. Terence
Ranger and Paul Slack (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 45-76.
June 2 St. Francis and the animals
Fifty Animal Stories
of Saint Francis as told by his companions, transcribed from the Early
Franciscan Chronicles by Raphael Brown (Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press,
1958), pp. 1-96.
Francis of Assisi, “The Canticle of the Creatures,” in Early Documents. Vol. 1: The Saint, eds.
Regis J. Armstrong, J.A. Wayne Hellmans and William J. Short (New York: New
City Press, 1999), pp. 113-14.
Roger D. Sorrell, “Tradition and Innovation: Harmony and
Hierarchy in St. Francis of Assisi’s Sermon to the Birds,” Franciscan Studies 43 (1983): 396-407.
Lee Patterson, “Brother Fire and St. Francis’s Drawers:
Human Nature and the Natural World,” Medieval
Perspectives 15 (2000): 1-18.
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