The horse as cultural icon : the real and symbolic horse in the early modern world / edited by Peter Edwards, Karl A.E. Enenkel and Elspeth Graham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edwards, Peter (Peter Roger)

Enenkel, K. A. E.

Graham, Elspeth, 1953-

Series:

Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 18.

Intersections, 1568-1811 ; v. 18, 2011

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horses--History.

Horses.

History.

Horses--Social aspects--History.

Horses in literature.

Horses--Social aspects.

Genre:

Kongress -- London -- 2009.

Physical Description:

xviii, 407 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Summary:

The Early Modern Horse network held the conference The Renaissance Horse, in London during June 2009 to mark retirement of social historian Edwards from Roehampton University. Scholars of history, art history, and literature explore horsemanship and status, horse breeding, and horse-human identities. Among the topics are equestrian iconography and the training of horse, rider, and reader; the legacy of Federico Grisone; the horse in Africa in the 16th and 17th centuries; equine imagery in Shakespeare's Henriad; and the military value of horses and the social value of the horse in early modern England. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004212060

900421206X

OCLC:

742234180