The Creatures of Medieval Maps and Bestiaries - 62

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Join us on a journey through the mystical world of medieval maps and bestiaries. We will cover a selection of creatures real and imagined, their portrayal in the medieval period and how they informed people’s perceptions of said creatures.

Transcripts

• Segment 1

• Segment 2

• Segment 3

Links and Sources

• The Hereford Mappa Mundi

• The Medieval Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages

• The Worksop Bestiary

• Harvey, PDA (1991) Introducing Medieval Maps. British Library.

• Livingstone, J. (2018) Travel, trade and exploration in the Middle Ages. British Library.

• Morrison, E. (2019) Beastly Tales from the Medieval Bestiary. British Library.

• Nigg, J. (2014) Olaus Magnus' Sea Serpent. The Public Doman Review.

• Waters, H. (2013) The Enchanting Sea Monsters on Medieval Maps. Smithsonian Magazine.

Contact

• Alex FitzpatrickTwitter: @archaeologyfitz

• Simona FalangaTwitter: @CrazyBoneLady

• Alex’s Blog: Animal Archaeology

• Music "Coconut - (dyalla remix)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2UiKoouqaY

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Time Warped! Part Five - The Zooarchaeology of the Medieval Period - Ep 39

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On the last instalment of the ‘Time Warped’ miniseries, Alex and Simona discuss animal exploitation in the Medieval period. Also ineffective door-to-door Beaker salesmen, snail-riding cats and confusing cave site stratigraphy.

Links

• https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/story-of-england/medieval/

• https://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/when-were-the-middle-ages-2/

• Ashby, S.P. (2002) The role of zooarchaeology in the interpretation of socioeconomic status: a discussion with reference to Medieval Europe. Archaeological Review from Cambridge. pp. 37-59.

• http://bestiary.ca/intro.htm

• Fitzpatrick, A. (2019) Identification of avian remains from Covesea Cave 2, on the Moray Firth coast, northeastern Scotland. Cave and Karst.

• Yu, H. et al. (2021) Palaeogenomic analysis of black rat (Rattus rattus) reveals multiple European introductions associated with human economic history. Biorxiv [Preprint].

• - Bramanti, B. et al. (2021) Assessing the origins of the European Plagues following the Black Death: A synthesis of genomic, historical, and ecological information. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Sep 2021, 118 (36).

• - Hodges, R. (2012) Dark Age Economics, Bloomsbury Publishing

Contact

• Alex FitzpatrickTwitter: @archaeologyfitz

• Simona FalangaTwitter: @CrazyBoneLady

• Alex’s Blog: Animal Archaeology

• Music "Coconut - (dyalla remix)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2UiKoouqaY

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