The horse as cultural icon : the real and symbolic horse in the early modern world / / edited by Peter Edwards, Karl Enenkel, and Elspeth Graham.
In modern Western society horses appear as unexpected visitors: not quite exotic, but not familiar either. This estrangement between humans and horses is a recent one since, until the 1930's, horses were fully present in the everyday world. Indeed, as well as performing utilitarian functions, h...
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| Superior document: | Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, v. 18 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ;
v. 18. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (426 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction: The Horse as Cultural Icon: The Real and the Symbolic Horse in the Early Modern World / Peter Edwards and Elspeth Graham
- The Duke of Newcastle’s ‘Love [. . .] For Good Horses’: An Exploration of Meanings / Elspeth Graham
- Visual Aids: Equestrian Iconography and the Training of Horse, Rider and Reader / Pia F. Cuneo
- Big Men, Small Horses: Ridership, Social Standing and Environmental Adaptation in the Early Modern Philippines / Greg Bankoff
- Letting Loose the Horses: Sir Philip Sidney’s Exordium to The Defence of Poesie / Elizabeth Anne Socolow
- The Legacy of Federico Grisone / Elizabeth M. Tobey
- Altering a Race of Jades: Horse Breeding and Geohumoralism in Shakespeare / Ian F. MacInnes
- “Beware a Bastard Breed”: Notes Towards a Revisionist History of the Thoroughbred Racehorse / Richard Nash
- ‘The Most Excellent of Animal Creatures’: Health Care for Horses in Early Modern England / Louise Hill Curth
- “Dark Horses”: The Horse in Africa in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Sandra Swart
- The Renaissance Studs of the Gonzagas of Mantua / Andrea Tonni
- Image and Reality: Upper Class Perceptions of the Horse in Early Modern England / Peter Edwards
- ‘Know Us by Our Horses’: Equine Imagery in Shakespeare’s Henriad / Jennifer Flaherty
- ‘The Author of their Skill’: Human and Equine Understanding in the Duke of Newcastle’s ‘New Method’ / Elaine Walker
- The Military Value of Horses and the Social Value of the Horse in Early Modern England / Gavin Robinson
- Forging Iron and Masculinity: Farrier Trade Identities in Early Modern Germany / Amanda Eisemann
- Index Nominum.