Was heißt es, eine Tiergeschichte des Mittelalters zu schreiben?

• Verfasst von: Schürch, Isabelle [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Was heißt es, eine Tiergeschichte des Mittelalters zu schreiben?
• Verf.angabe: Isabelle Schürch
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: 2023-12-14
• Umfang: 20 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 19.12.2023
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Das Mittelalter
• Ort Quelle: Heidelberg : Heidelberg University Publishing, 1996
• Jahr Quelle: 2023
• Band/Heft Quelle: 28(2023), 2, Seite 407-425
• ISSN Quelle: 2196-6869
• DOI: doi:10.17885/heiup.mial.2023.2.24856
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: ger
• Sach-SW: social history
• K10plus-PPN: 1876374578
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

What would it mean to write an Animal History of the Middle Ages? This article focuses on this question and is intended as a reflection on the relationship between the study of Medieval History and the (socio-)historical foundations of human-animal relations. It makes a plea for a social history of the Middle Ages beyond an anachronistic anthropocentrism. The conception of a history of animals in the Middle Ages must move away from a juxtaposi­tion of humans and animals and locate human-animal relationships in the hierarchically stratified world order of the pre-modern era. This article aims to raise aware­ness of the necessity to write a medieval social history based on assemblages that are more than human. Such a social history is to be understood as a relational history that was shaped by historically specific human-animal relations and in turn helped to shape them. On the basis of three assemblages, namely the knight-warhorse duo, the agricultural collaborative work of peasant and ox, and the handling of so-called ‘pests’, the article argues that social and gender orders and their logics of domi­nation cannot be adequately grasped without explicitly including human-animal relationships into the study of medieval societies.