Renaissance Beasts

Of Animals, Humans, and Other Wonderful Creatures

By: Erica Fudge (Editor)

Write A Review

Hardcover | 15 March 2004

Sorry, we are not able to source the book you are looking for right now.

We did a search for other books with a similar title, however there were no matches. You can try selecting from a similar category, click on the author's name, or use the search box above to find your book.

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.

Industry Reviews

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2005.

Shipping

	Standard Shipping	Express Shipping
Metro postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Regional postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Rural postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95

Orders over $79.00 qualify for free shipping.

How to return your order

At Booktopia, we offer hassle-free returns in accordance with our returns policy. If you wish to return an item, please get in touch with Booktopia Customer Care.

Additional postage charges may be applicable.

Defective items

If there is a problem with any of the items received for your order then the Booktopia Customer Care team is ready to assist you.

For more info please visit our Help Centre.

You Can Find This Book In

Non-Fiction History Regional & National History European History Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History Arts & Entertainment Art Treatments & Subjects Animals, Nature & Still Life in Art History of Art & Design Styles Art from 1400 to 1600 Renaissance Art

Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Unpicking the Seam: Talking Animals and Reader Pleasure in Early Modern Satire	p. 19
"Bitches and Queens": Pets and Perversion at the Court of France's Henri III	p. 37
Hairy on the Inside: Metamorphosis and Civility in English Werewolf Texts	p. 50
Saying Nothing Concerning the Same: On Dominion, Purity, and Meat in Early Modern England	p. 70
"Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, and thou no breath at all?": Shakespeare's Animations	p. 87
Government by Beagle: The Impersonal Rule of James VI and I	p. 101
Reading, Writing, and Riding Horses in Early Modern England: James Shirley's Hyde Park (1632) and Gervase Markham's Cavelarice (1607)	p. 116
"Can ye not tell a man from a marmoset?": Apes and Others on the Early Modern Stage	p. 138
Pliny's Literate Elephant and the Idea of Animal Language in Renaissance Thought	p. 164
Reading Vital Signs: Animals and the Experimental Philosophy	p. 186
The Menagerie and the Labyrinthe: Animals at Versailles, 1662-1792	p. 208
Contributors	p. 233
Index	p. 237
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.

Renaissance Beasts

Of Animals, Humans, and Other Wonderful Creatures

Industry Reviews

Shipping

How to return your order

Defective items

You Can Find This Book In

More in Animals, Nature & Still Life in Art

The Book of Birds

A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss

The Drawing Habit

A Step-by-Step Guide to Improving Your Drawing Skills and Cultivating a Lifelong Practice of Creativity - Includes Downloadable Practice Sheets!

The Dog's Gaze

A Visual History

Exploring Nature through Citizen Science

Dennis Del Favero

Picturing the Climate Emergency

The Landscape Painter's Workbook

Essential Studies in Shape, Composition, and Color

Landscape and Nature in Scandinavian Art

Routledge Research in Art History

MortAmour

British Landscapes

A Sense of Place

Keiko Sasaoka

Presence

How to Draw Almost Every Animal

An Illustrated Sourcebook

Learn to Watercolor

20 Step-by-Step Beginner-Friendly Lessons on Watercolor Paper - Includes Watercolor Pad with Sketches - No Drawing Required!

Slow Looking

The Art of Nature

The Science of Plants

Inside their Secret World

365 Days of Art in Nature

Find Inspiration Every Day in the Natural World

The Antiquarian Sticker Book

An Illustrated Compendium of Adhesive Ephemera

Mastering Composition

Techniques and Principles to Dramatically Improve Your Painting

Mesozoic Art II

Dinosaurs and Other Ancient Animals in Art

Watercolor in the Woods

Paint a Whimsical World of Forest Animals, Botanicals, Toadstools and More

Around the World in 80 Plants

Plant Magick

The Library of Esoterica

Jenny Zemanek: Cabinet of Curiosities - Puzzle

1000-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

The Curious Lives of Vegetables

An Artful Exploration of the Wonderful World of Edible Plants, Their History, and Their Crucial Role in Our Future

Vanity Fur

The Alison Friend Sticker Book

This product is categorised by