Abel A. Alves
animal agency in identity construction
animal-human relations
Breeding Matters
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Corine Schleif
cross-cultural exchange
De Gheyn
Early Modern Spanish Empire
early modern studies
Elspeth Graham
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European court culture
Geese Book
Guillaume Rondelet
Henry III
Historia Naturalis Brasiliae
historical animal symbolism
Horse Breeding
Ingrid Cartwright
Jacques De Gheyn II
Jan Brueghel
John III
Joris Hoefnagel
Juliana Schiesari
Karen Raber
Larry Silver
Louisa Mackenzie
Magdalena Bayreuther
Magic User
Miriam Hall Kirch
Munich Kunstkammer
Non-human Animals
Nonhuman Animals
Peter Edwards
Peter Sahlins
Pia F. Cuneo
Pope Paul III
Princely Stud
Richard III
Sandra Swart
Seventeenth Century English Culture
Shakespeare's Richard III
Shakespeare’s Richard III
Sir Richard Newdigate
social identity formation
Stewart Alison G.
Susan Maxwell
Van Riebeeck
Wilhelm IV
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781409457435
- Weight: 1202g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Animals were everywhere in the early modern period and they impacted, at least in some way, the lives of every kind of early modern person, from the humblest peasant to the greatest prince. Artists made careers based on depicting them. English gentry impoverished themselves spending money on them. Humanists exercised their scholarship writing about them. Pastors saved souls delivering sermons on them. Nobles forged alliances competing with them. Foreigners and indigenes negotiated with one another through trading them. The nexus between animal-human relationships and early modern identity is illuminated in this volume by the latest research of international scholars working on the history of art, literature, and of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Germany, France, England, Spain, and South Africa. Collectively, these essays investigate how animals - horses, dogs, pigs, hogs, fish, cattle, sheep, birds, rhinoceroses, even sea-monsters and other creatures - served people in Europe, England, the Americas, and Africa to defend, contest or transcend the boundaries of early modern identities. Developments in the methodologies employed by scholars to interrogate the past have opened up an intellectual and discursive space for - and a concomitant recognition of - the study of animals as a topic that significantly elucidates past and present histories. Relevant to a considerable array of disciplines, the study of animals also provides a means to surmount traditional disciplinary boundaries through processes of dynamic interchange and cross-fertilization.
Pia F. Cuneo is Professor of Art History at the University of Arizona, USA. Her current work focuses on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century hippology, and she competes locally in dressage.
