Was heißt es, eine Tiergeschichte des Mittelalters zu schreiben?

Schürch, Isabelle (2023). Was heißt es, eine Tiergeschichte des Mittelalters zu schreiben? Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung, 28(2), pp. 407-425. Heidelberg University Publishing 10.17885/heiup.mial.2023.2.24856

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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.

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