CONGRESS CANCELED Impound, Outlaw
Description
With the animal turn, analysis of medieval interactions between humans and animals has shifted from considering animals as mere symbols or resources -- readings that have largely reinforced a perceived human-animal boundary in the Middle Ages -- to consider a broad range of medieval beliefs, values, and practices that complicate, blur, and even dissolve this boundary. One recent and particularly fruitful line of scholarship has considered vulnerability as a shared condition with the power to transcend this boundary. This panel explores imprisonment and ambiguous political/legal standing as conditions which can mutually inform and, in some cases, unite the human and non-human experience in the Middle Ages and beyond. Anna Siebach-Larsen
CONGRESS CANCELED Impound, Outlaw
Schneider 1335
With the animal turn, analysis of medieval interactions between humans and animals has shifted from considering animals as mere symbols or resources -- readings that have largely reinforced a perceived human-animal boundary in the Middle Ages -- to consider a broad range of medieval beliefs, values, and practices that complicate, blur, and even dissolve this boundary. One recent and particularly fruitful line of scholarship has considered vulnerability as a shared condition with the power to transcend this boundary. This panel explores imprisonment and ambiguous political/legal standing as conditions which can mutually inform and, in some cases, unite the human and non-human experience in the Middle Ages and beyond. Anna Siebach-Larsen