The Horse as Cultural Icon : The Real and the Symbolic Horse in the Early Modern World (Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Cultu

Edwards, Peter (EDT)/ Enenkel, Karl A. E. (EDT)/ Graham, Elspeth (EDT)

Brill Academic Pub（2011/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 407 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004212060
• DDC分類 636.1009

Full Description

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 1930s, horses were fully present in the everyday world. Indeed, as well as performing utilitarian functions, horses possessed iconic appeal. But, despite the importance of horses, scholars have paid little attention to their lives, roles and meanings. This volume helps to redress the balance. It considers the value that the influential elite placed on horses as essential accompaniments to their way of life and as status symbols, as well as the role that horses played in society as a whole and the people who used and cared for them.

Contributors include Greg Bankoff, Pia F. Cuneo, Louise Hill Curth, Amanda Eisemann, Jennifer Flaherty, Ian F. MacInnes, Richard Nash, Gavin Robinson, Elizabeth Anne Socolow, Sandra Swart, Elizabeth M. Tobey, Andrea Tonni, and Elaine Walker.

Contents

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