Renaissance Beasts: Of Animals, Humans, and Other Wonderful CreaturesErica Fudge University of Illinois Press, 1 жовт. 2010 р. - 256 стор. Animals, as Lévi-Strauss wrote, are good to think with. This collection addresses and reassesses the variety of ways in which animals were used and thought about in Renaissance culture, challenging contemporary as well as historic views of the boundaries and hierarchies humans presume the natural world to contain. Taking as its starting point the popularity of speaking animals in sixteenth-century literature and ending with the decline of the imperial Ménagerie during the French Revolution, Renaissance Beasts uses the lens of human-animal relationships to view issues as diverse as human status and power, diet, civilization and the political life, religion and anthropocentrism, spectacle and entertainment, language, science and skepticism, and domestic and courtly cultures. Within these pages scholars from a variety of disciplines discuss numerous kinds of texts--literary, dramatic, philosophical, religious, political--by writers including Calvin, Montaigne, Sidney, Shakespeare, Descartes, Boyle, and Locke. Through analysis of these and other writers, Renaissance Beasts uncovers new and arresting interpretations of Renaissance culture and the broader social assumptions glimpsed through views on matters such as pet ownership and meat consumption. Renaissance Beasts is certainly about animals, but of the many species discussed, it is ultimately humankind that comes under the greatest scrutiny. |
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... Thomas's magisterial study, Man and the Natural World (1983), showed that animals (and nature more generally) were an important aspect of intellectual, cultural, and social debate in the early modern period.11 However, in his book ...
... Thomas's magisterial study, Man and the Natural World (1983), showed that animals (and nature more generally) were an important aspect of intellectual, cultural, and social debate in the early modern period.11 However, in his book ...
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... Thomas Edwards recorded in Gangraena, a horse was baptized with urine by parliamentary soldiers in a church in Yaxley in Huntingdonshire. Cressy notes other similar “mock religious” ceremonies involving animals in the period: in the ...
... Thomas Edwards recorded in Gangraena, a horse was baptized with urine by parliamentary soldiers in a church in Yaxley in Huntingdonshire. Cressy notes other similar “mock religious” ceremonies involving animals in the period: in the ...
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... Thomas Tryon, a late seventeenth—century vegetarian, Nigel Smith has traced a link between the religious enthusiasm of the Civil War and Enlightenment ideas, modes of thinking routinely regarded as antithetical in scholarly work.31 ...
... Thomas Tryon, a late seventeenth—century vegetarian, Nigel Smith has traced a link between the religious enthusiasm of the Civil War and Enlightenment ideas, modes of thinking routinely regarded as antithetical in scholarly work.31 ...
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... Thomas, Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England 1500—1800 (1983. Reprint. London: Penguin, 1984). 12. Jonathan Burt, “The Illumination of the Animal Kingdom: The Role of Light and Electricity in Animal Representation ...
... Thomas, Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England 1500—1800 (1983. Reprint. London: Penguin, 1984). 12. Jonathan Burt, “The Illumination of the Animal Kingdom: The Role of Light and Electricity in Animal Representation ...
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... Thomas More puts the tale of the Ass and his overscrupulous conscience into the mouth of Mother Mawd. The doubly humble form of the tale—an animal fable told by a woman servant—is protective coloring, discouraging unfriendly readers ...
... Thomas More puts the tale of the Ass and his overscrupulous conscience into the mouth of Mother Mawd. The doubly humble form of the tale—an animal fable told by a woman servant—is protective coloring, discouraging unfriendly readers ...
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Pets and Perversion at the Court of Frances Henri III | 37 |
Metamorphosis and Civility in English Werewolf Texts | 50 |
On Dominion Purity and Meat in Early Modern England | 70 |
5 Why should a dog a horse a rat have life and thou no breath at all? Shakespeares Animations | 87 |
The Impersonal Rule of James VI and I | 101 |
James Shirleys Hyde Park 1632 and Gervase Markhams Cavelarice 1607 | 116 |
8 Can ye not tell a man from a marmoset? Apes and Others on the Early Modern Stage | 138 |
9 Plinys Literate Elephant and the Idea of Animal Language in Renaissance Thought | 164 |
Animals and the Experimental Philosophy | 186 |
Animals at Versailles 16621792 | 208 |
Contributors | 233 |
Index | 237 |
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