Narwhals or Unicorns? Exotic Animals as Material Culture in Medieval Europe
Animals from distant lands fired the imaginations of people living in Europe throughout the Middle Ages. This is attested by a considerable wealth of iconographic and written material which has been explored from many perspectives, providing valuable insights into medieval western conceptualizations...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1177/1461957104056505 2023-05-15T17:14:13+02:00 Narwhals or Unicorns? Exotic Animals as Material Culture in Medieval Europe Pluskowski, Aleksander 2004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461957104056505 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S1461957100010603 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms European Journal of Archaeology volume 7, issue 3, page 291-313 ISSN 1461-9571 1741-2722 Archeology Archeology journal-article 2004 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1177/1461957104056505 2023-02-24T07:10:32Z Animals from distant lands fired the imaginations of people living in Europe throughout the Middle Ages. This is attested by a considerable wealth of iconographic and written material which has been explored from many perspectives, providing valuable insights into medieval western conceptualizations of the fringes of the known world and the otherness of exotica. However, the physical remains of non-indigenous species – both those recovered from archaeological contexts and extant in private collections – have generally been examined in isolation and rarely incorporated into a broader framework exploring the reception and utility of exotica. This article offers a new perspective on the topic by focusing on the zoological identity of non-indigenous animal body parts as ‘material culture’. Article in Journal/Newspaper narwhal* Cambridge University Press (via Crossref) European Journal of Archaeology 7 3 291 313 |
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Animals from distant lands fired the imaginations of people living in Europe throughout the Middle Ages. This is attested by a considerable wealth of iconographic and written material which has been explored from many perspectives, providing valuable insights into medieval western conceptualizations of the fringes of the known world and the otherness of exotica. However, the physical remains of non-indigenous species – both those recovered from archaeological contexts and extant in private collections – have generally been examined in isolation and rarely incorporated into a broader framework exploring the reception and utility of exotica. This article offers a new perspective on the topic by focusing on the zoological identity of non-indigenous animal body parts as ‘material culture’. |
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