Animals and early modern identity

List of figures

Notes on contributors

Introduction / Pia F. Cuneo

Part I. Defending the Boundaries of Identity. 1. Man's best friend? : dogs and pigs in early modern Germany / Alison G. Stewart ; 2. Every living beast : collecting animals and art in early modern Munich / Susan Maxwell ; 3. Where the sun don't shine : animals and animality in Louis XIV's Royal Labyrinth of Versailles (1668-74) / Peter Sahlins ; 4. "For amusement, merrymaking and good company" : horse racing at a German princely court / Miriam Hall Kirch ; 5. Breeding nobility : raising horses at early modern German courts / Magdalena Bayreuther ; 6. 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. 7. Horses as love-objects : shaping social and moral identities in Hans Baldung Grien's Bewitched groom (circa 1544) and in sixteenth-century hippology / Pia F. Cuneo ; 8. On the bit : Prince Maurits, Simon Stevin, and the Spanish warhorse / Ingrid Cartwright ; 9. The tusked hog : Richard III's boarish identity / Karen Raber ; 10. Who are the animals in the Geese book? / Corine Schleif ; 11. Settler stock : animals and power in the mid-seventeenth-century contact at the Cape, circa 1652-62 / Sandra Swart

Part III. Transcending the Boundaries of Identity. 12. Individuality and the understanding of animals in the early modern Spanish empire / Abel A. Alves ; 13. World of wonders : exotic animals in European imagery, 1515-1650 / Larry Silver ; 14. French early modern sea-monsters and modern identities, via Bruno Latour / Louisa Mackenzie ; 15. Ways of being, ways of knowing : fish, fishing, and forms of identity in seventeenth-century English culture / Elspeth Graham ; 16. Pedagogy and the art of dressage in the Italian Renaissance / Juliana Schiesari.