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The horse in early modern English culture : bridled, curbed, and tamed / Kevin De Ornellas.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) SF284.G7 D46 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Ornellas, Kevin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horses--Great Britain--History.
- Horses.
- Horses--Social aspects--Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Social life and customs.
- Great Britain.
- Horses--Social aspects.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 209 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Pricked more with the spur then the provender : hungry horses and Woodstock
- Agency and/or containment? : man/woman and horse/rider relationships in early modern England
- Trampling on the bald pate : Morocco the wonder horse and the humiliation of St. Paul's
- Laying the world on your mare : the corrupt horse-race in Shirley's Hide Parke
- Constructed combatants : political steeds before, during, and after the Civil Wars
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-199) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781611476583
- 1611476585
- OCLC:
- 857879104
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