Animal-Human Relationships in Medieval Iceland - From Farm-Settlement to Sagas

A multi-disciplinary investigation of the links between people and animals, in reality and representation.

List of contents

The Animal Acts...
An Animal-Human Settlement
Home, Sweet Home: Meeting Points on the Animal-Human Farm
The Animal-Human Community: Legal Tradition in Iceland
Fostering Relations: The Animal-Human Home in the Íslendingasögur
The Negative Animal: Absence, Precarity, and Danger
... and the Man Responds
Bibliography

About the author

Harriet J. Evans Tang is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Durham University. She has a PhD from the University of York, and occasionally returns to teach and supervise in their Centre for Medieval Studies and Department of English & Related Literature.

Product details

• Authors: Harriet Jean Evans Tang, Harriet Jean (Author) Evans Tang
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2022
• EAN: 9781843846437
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-643-7
• No. of pages: 258
• Dimensions: 243 mm x 275 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 546 g
• Illustrations: 1 Maps
• Series: Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages