
Medieval Pets
Animals in the middle ages have often been discussed - but usually only as a source of food, as beasts of burden, or as aids for hunters. This book takes a completely different angle, showing that they were also beloved domestic companions to their human owners, whether they were dogs, cats, monkeys, squirrels, and parrots. It offers a full survey of pets and pet-keeping: from how they were acquir...
Hardcover: 200 pages
Publisher: Boydell Press; 1 edition (March 11, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1843837587
ISBN-13: 978-1843837589
Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1 x 9.5 inches
Amazon Rank: 1156766
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“Drawing primarily upon later medieval documentary sources and visual representations, Walker-Meikle demonstrates that the keeping of companion animals (as we learn there was no medieval equivalent for the word ‘pet’) was commonplace amongst certain g...”
d, kept, fed, exercised, and displayed, to the problems they could cause. It also examines the representation of pets and their owners in art and literature; the many charming illustrations offer further evidence for the bonds between humans and their pets, then as now. A wide range of sources, including chronicles, letters, sermons and poems, are used in what is both an authoritative and entertaining account. Dr Kathleen Walker-Meikle is a Wellcome Trust Fellow at the University of York, working on animals and medieval medicine.
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