The Horse In Early Modern English Culture

Author : K. Raber
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137097256
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Culture of the Horse written by K. Raber and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume fills an important gap in the analysis of early modern history and culture by reintroducing scholars to the significance of the horse. A more complete understanding of the role of horses and horsemanship is absolutely crucial to our understanding of the early modern world. Each essay in the collection provides a snapshot of how horse culture and the broader culture - that tapestry of images, objects, structures, sounds, gestures, texts, and ideas - articulate. Without knowledge of how the horse figured in all these aspects, no version of political, material, or intellectual culture in the period can be entirely accurate.

Author : Kevin De Ornellas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611476593
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Horse in Early Modern English Culture written by Kevin De Ornellas and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kevin De Ornellas argues that in Renaissance England the relationship between horse and rider works as an unambiguous symbol of domination by the strong over the weak. There was little sentimental concern for animal welfare, leading to the routine abuse of the material animal. This unproblematic, practical exploitation of the horse led to the currency of the horse/rider relationship as a trope or symbol of exploitation in the literature of the period. Engaging with fiction, plays, poems, and non-fictional prose works of late Tudor and early Stuart England, De Ornellas demonstrates that the horse—a bridled, unwilling slave—becomes a yardstick against which the oppression of England’s poor, women, increasingly uninfluential clergyman, and deluded gamblers is measured. The status of the bitted, harnessed horse was a low one in early modern England—to be compared to such a beast is a demonstration of inferiority and subjugation. To think anything else is to be naïve about the realities of horse management in the period and is to be naïve about the realities of the exploitation of horses and other mammals in the present-day world.

Author : Natália Pikli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000431614
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare’s Hobby-Horse and Early Modern Popular Culture written by Natália Pikli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways in which the early modern hobby-horse featured in different productions of popular culture between the 1580s and 1630s. Natália Pikli approaches this study with a thorough and interdisciplinary examination of hobby-horse references, with commentary on the polysemous uses of the word, offers an informative background to reconsider well-known texts by Shakespeare and others, and provides an overview on the workings of cultural memory regarding popular culture in early modern England. The book will appeal to those with interest in early modern drama and theatre, dramaturgy, popular culture, cultural memory, and iconography.

Author : Peter Edwards
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900421206X
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Horse as Cultural Icon written by Peter Edwards and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of the importance of horses to Western society until comparatively recent times, scholars have paid very little attention to them. This volume helps to redress the balance, emphasizing their iconic appeal as well as their utilitarian functions.

Author : Peter Edwards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Continuum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horse and Man in Early Modern England written by Peter Edwards and published by Bloomsbury Continuum. This book was released on 2007-05-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how, in pre-industrial England, horses were bred and trained, what they ate, how much they were worth, how long they lived, and what their owners thought of them. While they were named individually, and sometimes became favourites, many were worked hard and poorly treated, leading to their early deaths.

Author : Donna Landry
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801890284
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Noble Brutes written by Donna Landry and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This radical reinterpretation of Ottoman and Arab influences on horsemanship and breeding sheds new light on English national identity, as illustrated in such classic works as Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and George Stubbs's portrait of Whistlejacket.

Author : Peter Edwards
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004222421
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Horse as Cultural Icon written by Peter Edwards and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Peter Edwards
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783272880
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horses and the Aristocratic Lifestyle in Early Modern England written by Peter Edwards and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2018 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a study of horses, the book reveals how an important and growing aristocratic estate was managed, where the aristocrat at the centre of it - William Cavendish - travelled and how he spent his time, and how horses were oneof the means by which he asserted his social status.

Author : Anastasija Ropa
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501514016
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Horse in Premodern European Culture written by Anastasija Ropa and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a unique introduction to the most topical issues, advances, and challenges in medieval horse history. Medievalists who have a long-standing interest in horse history, as well as those seeking to widen their understanding of horses in medieval society will find here informed and comprehensive treatment of chapters from disciplines as diverse as archaeology, legal, economic and military history, urban and rural history, art and literature. The themes range from case studies of saddles and bridles, to hippiatric treatises, to the medieval origins of dressage literary studies. It shows the ubiquitous – and often ambiguous – role of the horse in medieval culture, where it was simultaneously a treasured animal and a means of transport, a military machine and a loyal companion. The contributors, many of whom have practical knowledge of horses, are drawn from established and budding scholars working in their areas of expertise.

Author : Anastasija Ropa
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501513788
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Horse in Premodern European Culture written by Anastasija Ropa and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a unique introduction to the most topical issues, advances, and challenges in medieval horse history. Medievalists who have a long-standing interest in horse history, as well as those seeking to widen their understanding of horses in medieval society will find here informed and comprehensive treatment of chapters from disciplines as diverse as archaeology, legal, economic and military history, urban and rural history, art and literature. The themes range from case studies of saddles and bridles, to hippiatric treatises, to the medieval origins of dressage literary studies. It shows the ubiquitous – and often ambiguous – role of the horse in medieval culture, where it was simultaneously a treasured animal and a means of transport, a military machine and a loyal companion. The contributors, many of whom have practical knowledge of horses, are drawn from established and budding scholars working in their areas of expertise.