Interspecies Interactions (eBook, ePUB)

Animals and Humans between the Middle Ages and Modernity
Redaktion: Cockram, Sarah; Wells, Andrew

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Interspecies Interactions surveys the rapidly developing field of human-animal relations in the early modern world and provides scholarly debate on its methods, challenges, and direction. Covering topics such as, emotion, cognition, empire, status and performance, this book is essential for students and scholars of historical animal studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351612630
• Artikelnr.: 49269236

Autorenporträt

Sarah Cockram is Lecturer in History, c.1200-1600 at the University of Glasgow. Her publications include Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga: Power Sharing at the Italian Renaissance Court (2013) and a co-edited special issue of the journal Renaissance Studies on 'The Animal in Renaissance Italy'. Andrew Wells is a postdoctoral researcher (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) in the Graduate School of the Humanities (GSGG) at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany. He has published essays in History Compass, the Journal of British Studies, and History of European Ideas. His forthcoming book explores the interactions of racial and sexual concepts and identities in eighteenth-century British culture.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction: Action, Reaction, Interaction in Historical Animal Studies
PART 1. EMPATHY, EMOTION AND COMPANIONSHIP
1. Emotions and the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Carnival of Animals
2. Sleeve Cat and Lap Dog: Affection, Aesthetics and Proximity to Companion Animals in Renaissance Mantua
3. Equine Empathies: Giving Voice to Horses in Early Modern Germany
PART 2. USE AND ABUSE
4. The Tale of a Horse: The Levinz Colt, 1721-29
5. Animals at the Table: Performing Meat in Early Modern England and Europe
6. Blurred Lines: Bestiality and the Human Ape in Enlightenment Scotland
7. 'A Disgusting Exhibition of Brutality': Animals, the Law, and the Warwick Lion Fight of 1825
PART 3. SELF AND OTHER: IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION
8. Inveterate Travellers and Travelling Invertebrates: Human and Animal in Enlightenment Entomology
9. Hungarian Grey Cattle: Parallels in Constituting Animal and Human Identities
10. 'The Monster's Mouth...': Dangerous Animals and the European Settlement of Australia
Afterword
Index