Thinking about Beastly Bodies (Terry O'Connor) Medieval Bone Flutes in England (Helen Leaf) The Middle Ages on the Block: Animals, Guilds and Meat in the Medieval Period (Krish Seetah) Communicating through Skin and Bone: Appropriating Animal Bodies in Medieval Western European Seigneurial Culture (Aleksander Pluskowski) Taphonomy or Transfiguration: Do we need to Change the Subject? (Sue Stallibrass) Seeing is Believing: Animal Material Culture in Medieval England (Sarah Wells) The Beast, the Book and the Belt: an Introduction to the Study of Girdle or Belt Books from the Medieval Period (Jim Bloxam) The Shifting use of Animal Carcasses in Medieval and Post-medieval London (Lisa Yeomans) Hunting in the Byzantine Period in the Area between the Danube River and the Black Sea: Archaeozoological Data (Luminia Bejenaru and Carmen Tarcan) Chasing the Ideal? Ritualism, Pragmatism and the Later Medieval Hunt in England (Richard Thomas) Taking Sides: the Social Life of Venison in Medieval England (Naomi Sykes) Animals as Material Culture in Middle Saxon England: The Zooarchaeological Evidence for Wool Production at Brandon (Pam Crabtree) Animal Bones: Synchronous and Diachronic Distribution as Patterns of Socially Determined Meat Consumption in the Early and High Middle Ages in Central and Northern Italy (Marco Valenti and Frank Salvadori) People and Animals in Northern Apulia from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages: Some Considerations (Antonella Buglione) Animals and Economic Patterns of Medieval Apulia (South Italy): A Preliminary Report (Giovanni de Venuto) Concluding Remarks (Pam Crabtree).