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Animals and Early Modern Identity

By: Pia F Cuneo(Editor)
400 pages, 61 b/w illustrations
Publisher: Ashgate
Animals and Early Modern Identity
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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 Animals and Early Modern Identity by the latest research of international scholars working on the history of art, literature, and of 16th/17th c. 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 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.

Contents

- Contents: Introduction, Pia F. Cuneo

Part I Defending the Boundaries of Identity
- Man's best friend? Dogs and pigs in early modern Germany, Alison G. Stewart
- Every living beast: collecting animals and art in early modern Munich, Susan Maxwell
- Where the sun don't shine: animals and animality in Louis XIV's royal labyrinth of Versailles (1668-1674), Peter Sahlins
- 'Foe amusement, merry-making and good company': horse racing at a German princely court, Miriam Hall Kirch
- Breeding nobility: raising horses at early modern German courts, Magdalena Bayreuther
- Horses and elite identity in early modern England: the case of Sir Richard Newdigate II of Arbury Hall, Warwickshire (1644-1710), Peter Edwards

Part II Contesting the Boundaries of identity
- Horses as love-objects: shaping social and moral identities in Hans Baldung Griens' Bewitched Groom (c, 1544) and in 16th-century hippology, Pia F. Cuneo
- On the bit: Prince Maurits, Simon Stevin, and the Spanish warhorse, Ingrid Cartwright
- The tusked hog: Richard III's boarish identity, Karen Raber
- Who are the animals in the Geese Book?, Corinne Schleif
- Settler stock: animals and power in the mid-17th-centiry contact at the Cape, c. 1652-1662, Sandra Swart

Part III Transcending the Boundaries of Identity
- Individuality and the understanding of animals in the early modern Spanish empire, Abel Alves
- World of wonders: exotic animals in European imagery, 1515-1650, Larry Silver
- French early modern sea-monsters and modern identities, via Bruno Latour, Louisa Mackenzie
- Ways of being, ways of knowing: fish, fishing, and forms of identity in 17th-century English culture, Elspeth Graham
- Pedagogy and the art of dressage in the Italian Renaissance, Juliana Schiesari

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Biography

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.

By: Pia F Cuneo(Editor)
400 pages, 61 b/w illustrations
Publisher: Ashgate
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