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Author:   Peter Edwards ,  Karl A. E.. Enenkel ,  Elspeth Graham
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   18
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.838kg
ISBN:  

9789004212060

ISBN 10:   900421206
Pages:   410
Publication Date:   14 October 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION: THE HORSE AS CULTURAL ICON: THE REAL AND THE SYMBOLIC HORSE IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD Peter Edwards and Elspeth Graham I. HORSEMANSHIP AND STATUS 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 Socolow THE LEGACY OF FEDERICO GRISONE Elizabeth M. Tobey II. HORSE BREEDING 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 III. HORSE-HUMAN IDENTITIES 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

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Peter Edwards, D.Phil. (Oxon 1976), is Professor of Early Modern British Social History at Roehampton University London. He has published extensively on the role of horses in early modern society, including the book, Horse and Man in Early Modern England. Karl A.E. Enenkel, Ph.D. (Leiden, 1990) is Professor of Medieval and Neo-Latin Literature at the University of Münster, Germany, and member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He has published on international Humanism, the reception of Classical Antiquity, the history of ideas, literary genres and emblem studies. Elspeth Graham, Ph.D. (Manchester, 1986) is Head of English and Reader in Early Modern Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. She has published on seventeenth-century women's writing and religious radicalism as well as on early-modern and modern horse cultures.

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