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[caption id="attachment_923" align="alignright" width="300"] Adam naming animals, British Library Ms Royal 12 F. XIII, f. 34v[/caption]INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF THE MEDIEVAL ANIMAL DATA NETWORK (MAD)Animals on the Move in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period10–11 November, 2017, Stockholm University, SwedenProgramNovember 9 Thursday Arrival to Stockholm15:00 - 18:00 : Registration open at the University, Room 334November 10 Friday9:00 - 9:30 : Registration9:30 - 10:00 : Opening addressTopic 1: Travelling animal imagery10:00 - 10:20 : Beatrice Amelotti: The use of animals in Giovanni da San Gimignano's Liber de exempiis et similitudinibus rerum10:20 - 10:40 : Joana Antunes: The restless ape. A journey through Portuguese medieval and early modern art10:40 - 11:00 : Coffee breakTopic 2: Animals on the Road11:00 - 11:20 :  Gerhard Jaritz: Medieval slow animals, medieval quick animals11:20 - 11:40 : Ylva Telldahl: The horse as transporters of beliefs and as iconographic symbols. Is animal colour used to enhance the meaning of medieval stories?11:40 - 12:00 : Xu Zhexin: Imperial Postal System and the Publication of Equine Veterinary Medicine Books in Ming China: A Case Study on Yuanhen Liaomaji12:00 - 13:00  Lunch break13:00 - 13:20 : Tanja Tolar: The image of camels in Western art between 12th and 14th century13:20 - 13:40 : Tracey Eckersley: Sacred Sumpters: Depictions of Camels and Horses in Eastern Late Antique Pilgrimage Churches13:40 - 14:00 : Eve Rannamäe: Mobility of livestock in medieval and Early Modern Estonia, with an emphasis on sheep (Ovis aries)14:00 -  14:20 : Coffee breakTopic 3: Herding and trade14:20 - 14:40 : Bernadette McCooey: The lesser spotted species of Icelandic farming14:40 - 15:00 : Hanna Kivikero: Distribution of animal products in early modern Sweden15:00 - 15:20 : Ida Hast: The animals in Sala mining village, Sweden: an insight into 16-17th century meat consumption15:20 - 15:40 : Erika Gál: A stream of meat and pleasure: birds in medieval Hungary18:00 Conference dinner (optional) at “Järnvägsrestaurangen”, Östra station(at T14 station “Tekniska högskolan”)November 11 SaturdayTopic 4: Dangerous animals?10:00 - 10:20 : Megan Cavell: Mobile Predator, Static Prey: Literary Approaches to Wolves in Anglo-Saxon England10:20 - 10:40 : Laura Gelfand: Saints Encountering Wolves in the Medieval World10:40 - 11:00 : Richard Trachsler: The Eye and the Spots. Observations on the Lynx in Medieval Literature11:00 - 11:20 : Coffee break11:20 - 11:40 : Alice M. Choyke: The Hunter chases the Prey: Dog and Hair pairings in medieval Europe and possible precurors11:40 - 12:00 : Christopher Nichols: Dog Remains at the Cemetery of Valsgärde, Uppland, Sweden12:00 - 12:40 : Monika Milosavljević: Always Angular and Never Straight: Medieval Snakes in Human Graves?12:40 - 13:40 : Lunch breakTopic 5: Circulating animal parts13:40 - 14:00 : Myriam Marrache-Gouraud: Feather issues in Early Modern cabinets of curiosity (XVI-XVIIth centuries)14:20 - 14:40 : Ingrid Matschinegg: Antlers in the Parlour and other animal-derived objects in the interior. Observations from late medieval and early modern Austrian Inventories14:40 - 15:00 : Johnny Karlsson: Exotic animal raw materials at Sigtuna, Sweden15:00 - 15:20 : Coffee break15:20 - 16:00 :  General discussion: data base development, publication, next meetingProgram in PDF