The Editor: Sieglinde Hartmann, Ph.D. 1980, Professor of Medieval German Literature at the University of Würzburg; lectureships at the universities of Paris (Sorbonne) and Graz (Austria); member of the Programming Committee of the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds; Vice-President of the Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft; publications on German, French, Spanish and Italian literature of the Middle Ages; editor-in-chief of the Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein Gesellschaft.

Contents: Peter Dinzelbacher: Preface/Vorwort - Marc-André Wagner : Le sacrifice du cheval chez les Germains : éléments de comparaison avec les pratiques des Celtes - Adelheid Krah: Tiere in den langobardischen und süddeutschen Leges - Nigel Harris: Animals and Exile in the Ecbasis cuiusdam captivi - Albrecht Classen: The Dog in German Courtly Literature: The Mystical, the Magical, and the Loyal Animal - David Salter: 'A Dog's Life': The Experience of Exile in Middle English Romance - Malcolm H. Jones: Cats and Cat-skinning in Late Medieval Art and Life - Nigel Harris: The Camel in Medieval Literature: Perspectives and Meanings - Umberto Albarella: Companions of our Travel: The Archaeological Evidence of Animals in Exile - Malcolm H. Jones: Saints and Other Horse-mutilators, or why all Englishmen have Tails - Marlu Kühn: Archaeological Evidence for the Use of Plants in the Medieval German Empire in Special Consideration of Gardens and the Possibilities of their Exploitation - Gerhard K. Helmstaedter: Artemisia: An Example for Pharmaco-botanical History in Medieval Treatises on Plants - Paola Schulze-Belli: From the Garden of Eden to the locus amoenus of Medieval Visionaries - Anja Grebe: In the Paradise of Love: Medieval Love Gardens: Topography and Iconography - Gabriela Schwarz-Zanetti/D. Fäh/Ph. Kästli/V. Masciadri/R. Schibler: The Churwalden (CH) Earthquake of September 1295 - Maria E. Dorninger: The Alps in Middle High German Epic: Aspects of their Description in King Laurin and Virginal - Aleks Pluskowski: Who Ruled the Forests? An Interdisciplinary Approach Towards Medieval Hunting Landscapes.