Below is a list of published papers, volumes and presentations
which are relevant to, or directly part of, ongoing research into medieval animals.

Ph.D. Thesis

• Beasts in the Woods: Medieval Responses to the Threatening Wild (aka Responses to the Wolf in Medieval Britain and Scandinavia), Unpublished Ph.D thesis, University of Cambridge (February 2003, Submitted October 2002).

Published Papers on Animals (from 2001 and excluding book reviews)

• Pluskowski, A. G. (2001) ‘Invisible lords of the forest: encounters with wolves at Bialowieza’, Wolfprint, 9, 10-13.
• Pluskowski, A. G. (2001) ‘En mørk finde? – om truende villdyr i nordeuropeisk middelalder’, (Dark enemy? The threatening wild in medieval northern Europe) Spór, (Trondheim Archaeological Journal), 1/2001, 14-16.
• Pluskowski, A. G. (2002) ‘Hares with crossbows and rabbit bones: integrating physical and conceptual studies of medieval fauna’, Archaeological Review from Cambridge, 18, 153-182.
• Pluskowski, A. G. (2002) ‘Predators in robes: materialising and mystifying hunting, predation and seclusion in the northern European medieval landscape’, in G. Helmig, B. Scholkmann and M. Untermann (eds.), Centre, Region, Periphery: Proceedings of the International Conference of Medieval and Later Archaeology, Basel, Switzerland, vol. 2, Basel, Archäologische Bodenforschung Basel-Stadt, 243-247.
• Pluskowski, A. G. (2002) ‘Where the wild things are…zones of conflict with the wilderness in northern Europe’, in G. Helmig, B. Scholkmann and M. Untermann (eds.), Centre, Region, Periphery: Proceedings of the International Conference of Medieval and Later Archaeology, Basel, Switzerland, vol. 3, Basel, Archäologische Bodenforschung Basel-Stadt, 94-98.
• Pluskowski, A. G. (2003) ‘Apocalyptic monsters: animal inspirations for the iconography of medieval north European devourers’, in R. Mills and B. Bildhauer (eds.), The Monstrous Middle Ages, Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 155-176.
• Pluskowski. A. G. (2004) 'Lupine apocalypse: the wolf in pagan and Christian cosmology in medieval Britain and Scandinavia', Cosmos, 17, 113-131.
• Pluskowski, A. G. (2005) 'The tyranny of the gingerbread house: contextualising the fear of wolves in medieval northern Europe through material culture, ecology and folklore', Current Swedish Archaeology 13, 141-160.
• Pluskowski, A. G. (2005) 'Prowlers in wild and dark places: mapping wolves in medieval Britain and southern Scandinavia', in A. G. Pluskowski (ed.) Just Skin and Bones? New Perspectives on Human-Animal Relations in the Historic Past, Oxford, Archeopress, British Archaeological Reports, International Series 1412, 81-94.
• Pluskowski, A. G. (2005) 'Narwhals or unicorns? Exotic animals as material culture in medieval Europe', European Journal of Archaeology 7(3), 291-313.
• Pluskowski, A. G. (2005) 'Wolves and sheep in medieval semiotics, iconology and ecology: a case study of multi- and inter-disciplinary approaches to human-animal relations in the historical past', in G. Jaritz and A. Choyke (eds.) Animal Diversities, Krems, Medium Aevum Quotidianum, 9-22.

Edited Volumes

• Pluskowski, A. G. (ed.) (2002) Medieval Animals: Archaeological Review from Cambridge 18 (2002).
• Pluskowski, A. G. (ed.) (2005) Just Skin and Bones? New Perspectives on Human-Animal Relations in the Historic Past, Oxford, Archeopress, British Archaeological Reports, International Series 1412.

Forthcoming 2006

• Pluskowski, A. G. (2006) 'Where are the wolves? Investigating the scarcity of European grey wolf (Canis lupus lupus) remains in medieval archaeological contexts and its implications', International Journal of Osteoarchaeology.
• Pluskowski, A. G. (2006) Wolves and Wilderness in the Middle Ages (re-structuring thesis into a book, confirmed contract with Boydell).
• Pluskowski, A. G. (2006) 'Harnessing the hunger: religious appropriations of animal predation in early medieval Scandinavia' (confirmed for A. Andrén et al (eds.), Old Norse Religion in Long-Term Perspectives).
• Pluskowski, A. G. (2006) 'Communicating through skin and bone: the appropriation of animal bodies in medieval western seigneurial culture' (confirmed for A. G. Pluskowski (ed.) Breaking and Shaping Beastly Bodies: Animals as Material Culture in the Middle Ages).
• Pluskowski, A. G. (2006) 'Holy and exalted prey: eco-cosmological relationships between hunters and deer in high medieval seigneurial culture' (confirmed for I. Sidera (ed.), La Chasse Pratiques, Sociales et Symboliques, Colloques de la Maison René-Ginouvès).
• Pluskowski, A. G. (2006) 'Constructing exotic animals in late medieval Britain' (confirmed for S. Page (ed.), The Unorthodox Imagination in Late Medieval Britain)
• Pluskowski, A. G. (2006) ‘Who ruled the forests? An inter-disciplinary approach towards medieval hunting landscapes’, (confirmed for Sieglinde Hartmann (ed.) Mediaevistik: fauna and flora).
• Seetah, K. and Pluskowski, A. G. (2006) 'The animal bones from medieval and Turkish occupation levels at Stari Bar, Montenegro', (confirmed for the excavation report, Stari Bar, 2004, Gelichi, S. (ed.)).
• Pluskowski, A. G. (ed.) (2006) Breaking and Shaping Beastly Bodies: Animals as Material Culture in the Middle Ages, Oxford, Oxbow.

In Preparation

Monographs

• Pluskowski, A. G. (2007) Dominion: People, Animals and Environments in Medieval Europe (in preparation, monograph based on current post-doctoral research).

Papers for edited volumes

• Pluskowski, A. G. (2007) 'The wolf' (confirmed chapter in forthcoming T. O'Connor and N. Sykes (eds.), The Extinct and Introduced Fauna of Britain 3000 BC-1300AD).
• Pluskowski, A. G. (2007) 'The social construction of medieval park ecosystems: an interdisciplinary perspective' (confirmed chapter in forthcoming R. Liddiard (ed.) The Medieval Park: New Perspectives).
• Dickinson, T. Fern, C. Hills, C. and Pluskowski, A. G. (2007) 'The symbolic repertoire' (confirmed chapter in forthcoming S. Semple and A. Sanmark (eds.), Anglo-Saxon Paganism).
• Pluskowski, A. G. (2008). 'The archaeology of paganism' (confirmed chapter in forthcoming Hamerow, H. Hinton, D. and Crawford, S. (eds.) Anglo-Saxon Archaeology, Oxford, Oxford University Press).

Papers for journals

• Pluskowski, A. G. 'The ecology of medieval crusading: reflections on a new research agenda' (submitted to Medieval Archaeology).
• Pluskowski, A. G. 'The status of exotic animals in medieval Europe: an interdisciplinary review' (in preparation).
• Pluskowski, A. G. 'The value of exotica in medieval Europe: the treatment of imported animals after death’ (in preparation).
• Pluskowski, A. G. 'Archaeologies of predation: the relevance of human responses to large carnivores in the past' (in preparation).
• Pluskowski, A. G. ‘Assessing the cultural and ecological impact of crusading and colonialism at the frontiers of medieval Europe'. (in prepartion).
• Pluskowski, A. G. and Tys, D. 'Hunting culture and the development of wolf persecution in medieval north-western Europe: an archaeological and historical synthesis' (in preparation).
• Pluskowski, A. G. 'The conceptual impact of marine fauna on medieval island communities in the central Mediterranean and Baltic' (to be submitted to Al-Masaq).
• Maltby, M. Seetah, K. and Pluskowski, A. G. (2006). 'The animal bones from the 2001 and 2003 excavations at Malbork Castle, Poland' (in preparation - to be submitted in English and Polish).

Presentations (from 2003 and excluding all teaching)

2003

• 1st February 2003. ‘'Infernal devourers: animals as cosmic predators in medieval Britain', Representation and Abstraction: Responses to the Natural World in the Middle Ages, Courtauld Institute, London.
• 5th February 2003. 'God's predators: an interdisciplinary approach to conceptualising the medieval élite hunt', Seminar, Department of Archaeology, University of Durham.
• 15th July 2003. ‘Power and predation: archaeological and legal evidence for élite hunting space in medieval northern Europe’, International Medieval Congress, Leeds (part of two sessions entitled 'Sports of the Powerful: The Medieval Hunt', organised by S. Hartmann, sponsored by the Oswald von Wolkenstein Gesellschaft).
• 10th December 2003. 'Perilous paths through the dark: locating the threatening wild in medieval northern Europe', Seminar, Institute of Archaeology, University of Lund.
• 11th December 2003. 'Power struggles in the wilderness: human responses to the wolf in medieval Britain and Scandinavia', Seminar, Institute of Archaeology, University of Lund.
• 17th December 2003. ‘Prowlers in wild and dark places: mapping wolves in medieval Britain and southern Scandinavia’, Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, Department of Archaeology, University of Wales, Lampeter (part of session entitled 'Just Skin and Bones? New Perspectives on Human-Animal Relations in the Historic Past', organised by A. G. Pluskowski).

2004

• 19th January 2004. 'The fury and hunger of beasts: utilising predators and imagining predation in the medieval west', Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge.
• June 2004. 'Harnessing the hunger: religious appropriations of animal predation in early medieval Scandinavia', Old Norse Religion in Long-Term Perspectives, Institute of Archaeology, University of Lund.
• July 2004. ‘From lions to unicorns: moving strange animals and their body parts across high medieval Europe’. International Medieval Congress, Leeds (part of two sessions entitled 'Negotiating through Beasts: European Appropriations of Strange and Familiar Creatures from Distant Lands', organised by A. G. Pluskowski).
• 9th September 2004. 'Narwhals or unicorns? A zooarchaeological approach to the uses and perceptions of exotic fauna in medieval Europe’, European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting, Lyon (part of session entitled 'Advancing Zooarchaeology – Beyond Socio-Economics in Faunal Research', organised by K. Seetah).
• 21st October 2004. 'Competing predators? Tensions between humans and wolves in Britain and Scandinavia from the 8th-14th centuries', Seminar, Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
• 10th November 2004. 'From living leopards to mechanical monkeys: experiencing exotic animals in medieval Europe', Seminar, Cambridge Archaeological Field Club.
• 7th December 2004. 'Invisible predators? The physical and conceptual ecology of wolves in medieval northern Europe', MA Seminar, Department of Archaeology, Central European University, Budapest.
• 7th December 2004. 'Speculum animalium: The importance of interdisciplinarity in medieval animal studies', Ph.D. Seminar, Department of Archaeology, Central European University, Budapest.

  2005

• 26th February 2005. 'Hunting the hunters: wolves and royal interests in medieval Britain and Scandinavia', London Medieval Society's Spring Colloquium: Animals and Birds, Natural and Supernatural.
• 19th March 2005. 'Communicating through skin and bone: the appropriation of animal bodies in medieval seigneurial culture', Breaking and Shaping Beastly Bodies: Animals as Material Culture in the Middle Ages, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge (organised by A. G. Pluskowski).
• 2nd April 2005. 'The significance of predation in Anglo-Scandinavian cult and belief', Paganism and Popular Practice in Anglo-Saxon England, University of Oxford, Department for Continuing Education (organised by Sarah Semple and Alex Sanmark)
• 8th May 2005. 'From the lamb inside the church to the wolf outside in the woods: multi- and inter-disciplinary approaches to medieval animal studies', International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo (part of session entitled 'Animal Networks', organised by G. Jaritz).
• June 2005. 'Holy and exalted prey: eco-cosmological relationships between hunters and deer in high medieval seigneurial culture' La Chasse Pratiques, Sociales et Symboliques, Colloque de la Maison René Ginouvès, Archéologie et Ethnologie, Paris.
• July 2005. 'The conceptual impact of marine fauna on medieval island communities in the central Mediterranean and Baltic', International Medieval Congress, Leeds (part of two sessions entitled 'Islands of the World and the Seven Seas in Medieval Myth and History', organised by S. Hartmann, sponsored by The Oswald von Wolkenstein Gesellschaft).
• 21 November 2005. 'Exploiting animals at the medieval city of Stari Bar, Montenegro: Preliminary findings from Byzantine-Serbian, Venetian and Turkish occupation phases', Seminar with Krish Seetah, Cambridge Medieval Archaeology Group, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge.
• 23 November 2005. 'A new predatory order: the development of aristocratic hunting culture and identity in medieval Europe', Seminar, Department of Archaeology, University of York.

2006

• 6th March 2006. 'Exploiting animals and environments at the castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork, north Poland: a preliminary report and directions for future research', Seminar with Krish Seetah, Cambridge Medieval Archaeology Group, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge.
• 31st March - 1st April 2006. 'Constructing exotic animals and environments in late medieval Britain', The Unorthodox Imagination in Late Medieval Britain, Neale Lecture and Colloquium, University College London.
• 4th-7th May 2006. 'Griffin or ibex? Medieval conceptualisations of animals through the lens of modern zooarchaeology', International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo (part of session entitled 'Medieval Zoologies: Contexts, Functions, Meanings', organised by G. Jaritz).
• 22nd May 2006. 'Persecuting the wolf in medieval Europe: a question of religion or politics?', Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminar, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.
• 17th June 2006. 'Nature and culture in medieval European archaeology: current research themes and future directions', Culture and Nature in Japanese and European Archaeology: Recent Approaches and Future Directions, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.
• 24th-25th August 2006. 'What is exotic? Sources of animals and animal products from the edges of the medieval world', Workshop on 'The Edges of the Medieval World', Muhu, Estonia.



• 19th-24th September 2006. '“Ecological Imperialism?” Investigating the Environmental Impact of Crusading and Colonisation at the Frontiers of Medieval Europe', part of session entitled 'Crusade, colonisation and conversion: material traces at the frontiers of medieval Christendom', organised by A. G. Pluskowski, at the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) 12th Annual Meeting in Kraków.
• 26th September 2006. 'Exploiting aquatic environments around medieval Venice: the state of knowledge and directions for future research', Sea Changes: Environmental Archaeology in the Marine Zone, From Coast to Continental Shelf, Association for Environmental Archaeology (AEA) One Day Meeting, Portsmouth.
• 7th October 2006. ‘The value of exotica in medieval Europe: the treatment of imported animals after death’, Animals' Routes, Peoples' Routes: Animals as Material Culture in the Middle Ages 2, University of Foggia.
• 14th October 2006. 'The beast within? Breaching human/animal boundaries in Anglo-Saxon paganism and the impact of the conversion to Christianity', Pagan Belief: Burial and Beyond, The Sutton Hoo Society Conference, Holbrook.

2007

• 23rd January. 'Living in fear of the beast? De-constructing the "problem" of wolves in medieval Europe', London Society for Medieval Studies seminar at the Institute of Historical Research.

Organised conferences and sessions