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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... things animal is a gift to those of us in the field, and this collection is a tribute to her. Throughout, early modern u, v, i, andj have been silently modernized. In some essays gendered terms such as man, mankind, and horsemanship are ...
... things animal is a gift to those of us in the field, and this collection is a tribute to her. Throughout, early modern u, v, i, andj have been silently modernized. In some essays gendered terms such as man, mankind, and horsemanship are ...
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... things, “to loose an care at eyther place.”1 Three years later, after an apparent plot “to set up the puritan or separatist faction,”2 Prynne, with John Bastwick and Henry Burton, was once again sentenced to have his ears clipped and to ...
... things, “to loose an care at eyther place.”1 Three years later, after an apparent plot “to set up the puritan or separatist faction,”2 Prynne, with John Bastwick and Henry Burton, was once again sentenced to have his ears clipped and to ...
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... thing] had the knowledge carnal of her body in every such shape.” Bowker later claimed that this thing also came to her “in the likeness of a black cat” and again had “knowledge of her body.” The suggestions here of bestiality fit, as ...
... thing] had the knowledge carnal of her body in every such shape.” Bowker later claimed that this thing also came to her “in the likeness of a black cat” and again had “knowledge of her body.” The suggestions here of bestiality fit, as ...
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... things. It is as if the cat cannot be regarded as a significant aspect of history, as if boiling a moggy is an event ... thing that comes from Cressy's work is a recognition that we constantly need to develop our ways of reading the past ...
... things. It is as if the cat cannot be regarded as a significant aspect of history, as if boiling a moggy is an event ... thing that comes from Cressy's work is a recognition that we constantly need to develop our ways of reading the past ...
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... things, which are focused in my differentiation of Renaissance beasts from Renaissance beasts. First and foremost it must be “good” history; that is, it must fulfill the standards of research and analysis set in all other areas of ...
... things, which are focused in my differentiation of Renaissance beasts from Renaissance beasts. First and foremost it must be “good” history; that is, it must fulfill the standards of research and analysis set in all other areas of ...
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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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