1. Introduction: Animals stepping off the page- László Bartosiewicz and Alice Choyke
2. The forgotten pigs and goats of Iceland in a North Atlantic context- Bernadette McCooey
3. Imperial Horse Policy and the Publication of Equine Veterinary Medicine Books in Ming China: A Case Study on Yuanheng Liaomaji- Zhexin Xu
4. Medieval Animals: The Fast and the Slow- Gerhard Jaritz
5. Animals between Authors and the Natural World in Giovanni da San Gimignano’s Liber de exemplis et similitudinibus rerum- Beatrice Amelotti
6. Always angular and never straight: Medieval snakes in human graves?- Monika Milosavljevic
7. Perpetual Preys: Pursuing the Bonacon across Space and Time- Zsuzsanna Papp Reed
8. What’s in a noun? A short caveat regarding the difficulties of identifying medieval animals in texts- Richard Trachsler
9. Exotic encounters: Vikings and faraway species in motion- Csete Katona
10. The question of feathers in the Early Modern cabinet of curiosities (16th–17th centuries)- Myriam Marrache-Gouraud
