The horse as cultural icon : the real and symbolic horse in the early modern world /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 407 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Intersections, 1568-1811 ; v. 18, 2011 Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 18.
Subject:	Horses -- History. Horses -- Social aspects -- History. Horses in literature. Horses. Horses -- Social aspects. Horses in literature. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11124551

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Other authors / contributors:	Edwards, Peter (Peter Roger) Enenkel, K. A. E. Graham, Elspeth, 1953-
ISBN:	9789004222427 9004222421 9789004212060 900421206X 1283310821 9781283310826 9786613310828 6613310824
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Horse as cultural icon. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012 9789004212060
Standard no.:	10.1163/9789004222427

Table of 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.

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