Animals and Courts : : Europe, c. 1200–1800 / / ed. by Mark Hengerer, Nadir Weber.
Early modern princely courts were not only inhabited by humans, but also by a large number of animals. This coexistence of non-human living beings had crucial impacts on the spatial organization, the social composition and cultural life at these courts. The contributions enrich our knowledge on anot...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Meaningful Movements: Animal Circulation and Intercourt Relations
- Hunting with Cheetahs at European Courts: From the Origins to the End of a Fashion
- The Black Francolin: Assessing the Origins of a Prized Courtly Bird in an Interdisciplinary Manner
- Non-European Animals and the Construction of Royalty at the Renaissance Portuguese Court
- Animals as Agents of Networking and Cultural Transfer: The Dukes of Ferrara and their Relations to German Courts in the Sixteenth Century
- Formative Interactions: Horses, Dogs, and the Making of the Courtier
- On Courtly Discipline: Animal Rituals and Noble Self-fashioning in Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan
- Marketing Nobility: Horsemanship in Renaissance Italy
- Stable Design and Horse Management at the Italian Renaissance Court
- Horses, Bulls, and Cavaleiros at the Portuguese Court 1640–1800
- Lively Representations: Animals, Rank, and Courtly Sociality
- Lively Representations: Animals, Rank, and Courtly Sociality
- Rubino, El Serpentino, Viola, and the Others: Renaissance Portraits of Dogs and Horses at the Court of the Gonzagas
- Staghounds and the Making of Excellence: Canine Knowledge and Royal Mastery in Sixteenth-Century France
- Royal Equipage on its Way: Carriages and Court Ceremonial in Eighteenth-Century Munich
- Unruly Display: The Challenges of Working with Animals in Swedish Royal Spectacle
- Coded Emotions: Animals, Love, and Gender Relations
- “God be with you, Sir Squirrel!” Pet Squirrels between Amorous Play and Animal Appetite, c. 1100–1650
- A Woman’s Life: The Role of Pets in the Lives of Royal Women at the Courts of Europe from 1400–1800
- “Triton as a friend”: A Dog’s Life at the Dessau Court, c. 1798–1811
- Animal Deaths, Commemoration, and Afterlives at the Gonzaga Court and Beyond
- Epilogue
- Comment: Animals at Court: Interspecies Relations in a Longue Durée Perspective
- Indices
- Index of names
- Index of animals
- Index of places
- Index of concepts