[HN Gopher] What medieval manuscripts teach us about our ancesto... ___________________________________________________________________ What medieval manuscripts teach us about our ancestors' pets Author : rntn Score : 30 points Date : 2022-12-25 14:34 UTC (8 hours ago) (HTM) web link (theconversation.com) (TXT) w3m dump (theconversation.com) | dav_Oz wrote: | > _Their presumed links with paganism and witchcraft meant they | were often treated with suspicion._ | | Unfortunately, one of the most cruel forms [0] of medieval | "suspicion"-treating. I will spare the details, here. | | The article is quite shallow, the links are a much better read | e.g.: | | > _One European pilgrim who traveled to the Middle East even | noted that among the differences between Muslims and Christians | was that "They like cats, while we like dogs._ [1] | | Or those wiki-articles [2],[3]. | | [0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat-burning | | [1]https://www.medievalists.net/2013/10/why-cats-were-hated- | in-... | | [2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_depictions_of_dogs | | [3]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_depictions_of_cats | trabant00 wrote: | I don't get the point about cats and dogs being status symbols. | I'm sure lower class had dogs for security and cats for rodents. | Geting a portrait with a pet is a status symbol because of the | portait part, not the pet. | ljf wrote: | Currently listening to a series of lectures on medieval | Britain, and very generally most working people were close to | starvation - they couldn't even afford to keep farm animals as | the cost to feed them was so high as the field practices at the | time were so poor. So while stray dogs and cats may have | attached themselves to households or villages, I seriously | doubt many except the richer families would have been able to | spare the food to feed them and treat them as real pets. And | unlikely they would look like the clean attractive pets in the | illustrations, if you've met many stray Street cats and dogs. | | https://www.europenowjournal.org/2018/09/04/famine-and-deart... | derriz wrote: | I'm a bit disappointed which the shallowness of the article. And | now mention of the (relatively well known?) cat poem, Pangur Ban? | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangur_Ban | cyocum wrote: | If you are interested in cats in Early Medieval Ireland, I | would recommend reading "Catslechta and other medieval legal | material relating to cats" by Kevin Murray in Celtica 25, pp. | 143-159. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-12-25 23:00 UTC)