What roles did animals play in the construction of early modern identities? In this volume, international scholars working in the disciplines of history, art hi

Animals were everywhere in the early modern period and they impacted, at least in some way, the lives of every kind of early modern person, from the humblest pe

This book is a study of attitudes toward animals in early modern Western culture. Emphasizing the influence of anthropocentrism on attitudes toward animals, his

When the human understanding of beasts in the past is studied, what are revealed is not only the foundations of our own perception of animals, but humans contem

During the Renaissance, horses—long considered the privileged, even sentient companions of knights-errant—gradually lost their special place on the field of