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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
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Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 434 p.)
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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