Beasts and Beauties : : Animals, Gender, and Domestication in the Italian Renaissance / / Juliana Schiesari.
The question of what it means to be human has preoccupied thinkers since antiquity. The classical humanism of the Italian Renaissance saw humanity as hierarchical, with elite European males at the apex while women, lower class or foreign men, and animals occupied varying lesser degrees of being. Usi...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2010 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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