In this post I will look at some aspects of the interaction between animal history and legal history. The program of the conference at Heidelberg has been created in cooperation with the commission for the Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch. In a conference on Das Tier in der Rechtsgeschichte at Heidelberg from April 2 to 4, 2014, legal historians and other scholars will discuss several aspects of animal and human life and the interaction between them. Relationships ranged and range today from animal worship and sometimes almost human care for pets at one end to harsh treatment as mere objects and outright systematic cruelty, serving mankind in the end as food, provider of skins, cruel entertainment and other goals. The company and companionship between women, men and animals is not completely harmless or effortless. Through the ages they often got along quite well, but sometimes man needed the law to deal with the unexpected behaviour of animals. Man and animals live together since the domestication of a number of animals many thousand years ago.
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