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Edited by Aleks Pluskowski

Archaeological Review from Cambridge

Volume 18

June 2002

Medieval Animals

Edited by Aleks Pluskowski

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A few words on animals…

Aleks Pluskowski

1-2

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Medieval zooarchaeology: what are we trying to do?

Terry O’Connor

3-21

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King of all beasts – beast of all kings

Lions in Anglo-Saxon coinage and art

Anna Gannon

22-36

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The role of zooarchaeology in the interpretation of socioeconomic status:

A discussion with reference to medieval Europe

Steve Ashby

37-59

A new interpretation of the Witham Bowl and its animal imagery

Paul Sorrell

60-79

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The Black Rat and the plague

Graham Twigg

80-98

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Love letters to bare bones:

a comparison of two types of evidence

for the use of animals in medieval Novgorod

Mark Brisbane and Mark Maltby

99-119

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Birds on the stream of consciousness:

Riddles 7 to 10 of the Exeter Book

Audrey Meaney

120-152

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Hares with crossbows and rabbit bones: integrating physical

and conceptual approaches towards medieval fauna

Aleks Pluskowski

153-182

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Book reviews

Back issues and notes to contributors

183-213

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A Few Words on Animals…

Aleks Pluskowski

Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge

Recent issues of Archaeological Review from Cambridge have

tended towards particular themes: presenting opportunities for

integrating a range of sources and perspectives and to encourage the

shift from the multi- to the inter-disciplinary. This is particularly

important for those studying the Middle Ages where an immense

body of data is subdivided amongst a host of disciplines. This issue

is not interdisciplinary in the sense that it aims to reconstruct a

particular medieval context from a unified perspective, but its spirit

is certainly interdisciplinary. The articles therefore represent (with

some bias!) the three basic divisions in medieval studies:

archaeology, art-history and history (encompassing documentary and

literary sources). Many of the articles integrate varying amounts

from different sources and paradigms and my own contribution

considers the problems and possibilities of integration in greater

detail.

The detailed study of medieval animals is becoming increasingly

popular; human relations with the natural world have in the past been

generally taken for granted: dogs and sheep fill the backdrops of

farms and fields, people ride horses everywhere, wolves lurk in the

misty fringes of dark woods and rats scurry about in wine cellars.

Clichés aside, it is widely and implicitly acknowledged that animals

are fundamental to all aspects of medieval life, whilst detailed

natural histories of species or even ‘life histories’ of individuals in

medieval contexts have yet to develop into a cohesive body of

research (with some notable exceptions such as Yalden 1999).

Invariably medievalists focus on human-animal relations, even when

discussing natural history, but the two cannot be separated –

particularly in the Middle Ages. This does not denigrate the

importance of animals as ‘agents’ in their own right – as prime

sources of inspiration, ecological catalysts and, in terms of physical

remains, environmental indicators. To take a modern example, Alger

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