The Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Relations in the Byzantine World
Przemysław Marciniak, "The Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Relations in the Byzantine World "
English | ISBN: 036751964X | 2025 | 381 pages | EPUB | 44 MB
English | ISBN: 036751964X | 2025 | 381 pages | EPUB | 44 MB
Animals have recently become recognized as significant agents of history as part of the ‘animal turn’ in historical studies. Animals in Byzantium were human companions, a source of entertainment and food – it is small wonder that they made their way into literature and the visual arts. Moreover, humans defined themselves and their activities by referring to non-human animals, either by anthropomorphizing animals (as in the case of the Cat-Mice War) or by animalizing humans and their (un)wanted behaviours.
The Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Relations in the Byzantine World offers an in-depth survey of the relationships between humans and non-human animals in the Byzantine Empire. The contributions included in the volume address both material (zooarchaeology, animals as food, visual representations of animals) and immaterial (semiotics, philosophy) aspects of human-animal coexistence in chapters written by leading experts in their field.
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