Impressions from the International Conference “Animals and Words” (Darmstadt, May 26-27, 2014)

Conrad Gesner, Icones animalium, Zurich: Froschauer, 1553, p. 28 Animaliter is an international research network, which acronym means ‘Animal in literature’. The core team gathers scholars from Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Animaliter’s main research project is to publish an on-line encyclopaedia of animals found in medieval literature (in Romance, Latin, German and Scandinavian languages). Many scholars from many countries (Italy, France, Spain along with the countries c..