FAUNA AND MEDIEVAL URBAN SPACE
An Interdisciplinary Workshop
2008, March 17-19
(March 17-18: Central European University, Budapest;
March 19: Visegrád)
Monday, March 17
10.00-11:20
Alice Choyke (CEU):
Animal-Human Interdependencies – Where are We Now?
Stephanos Efthymiadis (Open University of Cyprus):
Animals In and Out of Town: Their Use in Byzantine Historical Narratives
11:40-1:00
Brigitte Resl (University of Liverpool):
Animal Symbolism in Everyday Life in Late Medieval Towns
Frank Salvatore (University of Siena):
Animals in Italian Medieval Towns: From Late Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages
1:00-2:30 LUNCH
2:30-3:50
Briony Aitchison (University of St. Andrews):
"Drunkenness is the mother of forgetfulness, anger causes injuries": Animal
Welfare in Late Medieval English Urban Society
Anu Mänd (Estonian Institute of History):
Animals as Presents in Medieval Livonia
4:10-5:30
Aleks Pluskowski (University of Reading):
Urban Jungles? Wild Mammals in Medieval Towns
Fiona Beglane (Glenborin, Donegal Town, Co. Donegal, Ireland)
A Deposit of Pig’s Feet from Medieval Ireland
POSTER: Tara-Jane Sutcliff (York University)
Grave Animal Matter: A Study of Early Medieval Mortuary Fauna
Dinner for participants (5000 HUF + extra for drinks)
Tuesday, March 18
10:00-12:00
Cristian Gaspar (CEU):
Tracing the Elusive Bears of Late Antique Antioch: The damnatio ad bestias in the Life of St. Symeon the Elder Stylite
Florin Leonte (CEU):
A Lion-King or a Philosopher-King? The Rhetorics of Animal Imagery in Creating the Ruler's Image at the Imperial Court of Constantinople
Antonietta Buglione, Giovanni De Venuto (University of Foggia), Barbara Sassi and Sara Santoro (University of Parma):
Zooarchaeological Researches from a Privileged Urban Building in Medieval Durrës (Albania)
12:20-1:40
Hrvoje Kekez: (Croatian Institute of History)
Oxen, Pigs and Sheep in the Medieval City: An Analysis of Regulations concerning Domestic Animals in Statutes of Medieval Dalmation Towns
Gerhard Jaritz (CEU):
Dogs in Church
1:40 – 3:00 LUNCH
3:00-4:20
Katalin Szende (CEU):
“All the Priests’ Horses and all the Priests’ Hens...” Animals in Urban Households in Medieval Hungary on the Basis of Last Wills
Erika Gál (Hungarian Academy of Sciences):
Birds in the Medieval Urban Environment
4:40-6:00
Mark Maltby (Bournemouth University):
Faunal Studies in Novgorod: Potential and Problems of Integrated Research Projects
Ingrid Matschinegg (Austrian Academy of Sciences):
From Ape to Zebra: Creating a Cycle of Knowledge on the Various Traces of Animals in the Middle Ages
Wednesday, March 19
8:00 Meeting in parking lot of CEU residence center
8:15 Departure by bus for Visegrád STRICTLY on time
10:00-11:20
Welcoming comments by the Director of the King Mathias Museum,
Dr. Mátyás Szoke
István Kováts (King Mathias Museum, Visegrád):
Domestic and Hunted Animals in Late Medieval Visegrád
László Daróczi-Szabó (Budapest History Museum):
Animals in Medieval Buda Castle
11:40-1:00
Karl Gunter Kunst (University of Vienna):
What Makes an Urban Animal Bone Assemblage Look Urban? Reflections on
Diversity, Tool marks and Recurrent Patterns
Isabella Nicka (Austrian Academy of Sciences):
"Proud as a Peacock ..."? Analyzing Visual Representations of Animals in Medieval Urban Space
2:00-3:00 Guided visit to Visegrád palace
3:00-4:20
Pam Crabtree (New York University):
The Diet of Ipswich from the Middle Saxon through the Medieval Periods
Kyra Lyublyanovics (CEU and Budapest History Museum):
People and Animals in a Medieval Hungarian Market Town
4:40-6:00
Krish Seetah (University of Cambridge):
The Control of Animal Waste in the Urban Environment: Evidence, Interpretation and the Place of Archaeology
Luminita Bejanaru (University of Iasi):
Faunal Exploitation Patterns at Urban Settlements in Medieval Moldavia
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