This volume offers the first extensive overview on human-animal history in the Baltics. Investigating entanglements between human and more-than-human animals from the pre-Christian period to the Soviet times and covering various species, it integrates the transnational study of Baltic history and culture with interdisciplinary human-animal studies.

CONTENTS - List of Maps, Figures and TablesList of Contributors -Linda Kaljundi, Ulrike Plath, Kadri Tüür -Introduction -Inna Põltsam-Jürjo　-Animals in Medieval Livonian Laws - Ken Ird　 - When Men Stayed in Barn for Too Long: Cases of Bestiality in the Early Modern Baltic Provinces - Kaarina Rein - Depiction of Animals in the Medical Works of the Seventeenth Century University of Tartu - Ulrike Plath　 - Animal Abolitionalism and Early Environmentalism in Late Nineteenth Century Riga - Anita Zariņa, Dārta Treija, Ivo Vinogradovs - Bison in the Latvian Ethnoscape: Contingency of (not) Becoming -Eve Rannamäe, Anneli Ärmpalu-Idvand - Estonian Aboriginal Sheep in Modern History: Description, Importance, and the Story of Becoming the Kihnu Native Breed - Juhan Kreem　-The Horses of the Teutonic Order in Livonia: An Attempt to Map the Vital Resource for the Knights - Ivar Leimus - The Horse in Livonia as a Strategic Commodity in the Middle Ages - Lembi Lõugas- Fish and Fish Trade by the Archaeological Sources - Kadri Tüür - Trawling for Atlantic Herring in Estonian Literature - Tõnno Jonuks - Griffins in the Eastern Baltic Late Iron Age - Anu Mänd - Visual Representation of Animals in Livonian Urban Space, c. 1400–1550 - Stefan Donecker - Dogs of War: Wolves and Warfare in Early Modern Livonia (ca. 1555–1605) - Meelis Friedenthal - Cats, Allergy and Occult Powers in Early Modern Disputations - Jaanika Anderson, Hilkka Hiiop - Fashion or Conceptual Choice: The Motifs of Animals, Birds, and Semi-Animals in Pompeian-Style Interiors in Estonia