Interspecies Interactions Animals and Humans between the Middle Ages and Modernity

List of figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Erica Fudge

Introduction: Action, Reaction, Interaction in Historical Animal Studies

Sarah Cockram and Andrew Wells

PART 1. EMPATHY, EMOTION AND COMPANIONSHIP

1. Emotions and the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Carnival of Animals

Ido Ben-Ami

2. Sleeve Cat and Lap Dog: Affection, Aesthetics and Proximity to Companion Animals in Renaissance Mantua

Sarah Cockram

3. Equine Empathies: Giving Voice to Horses in Early Modern Germany

Pia Cuneo

PART 2. USE AND ABUSE

4. The Tale of a Horse: The Levinz Colt, 1721-29

Peter Edwards

5. Animals at the Table: Performing Meat in Early Modern England and Europe

Karen Raber

6. Blurred Lines: Bestiality and the Human Ape in Enlightenment Scotland

Andrew Wells

7. ‘A Disgusting Exhibition of Brutality’: Animals, the Law, and the Warwick Lion Fight of 1825

Helen Cowie

PART 3. SELF AND OTHER: IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION

8. Inveterate Travellers and Travelling Invertebrates: Human and Animal in Enlightenment Entomology

Dominik Hünniger

9. Hungarian Grey Cattle: Parallels in Constituting Animal and Human Identities

László Bartosiewicz

10. ‘The Monster’s Mouth…’: Dangerous Animals and the European Settlement of Australia

Krista Maglen

Afterword

Harriet Ritvo

Index

Biography

Sarah Cockram is Lecturer in History, c.1200-1600 at the University of Glasgow. Her publications include Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga: Power Sharing at the Italian Renaissance Court (2013) and a co-edited special issue of the journal Renaissance Studies on 'The Animal in Renaissance Italy'.

Andrew Wells is a postdoctoral researcher (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) in the Graduate School of the Humanities (GSGG) at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany. He has published essays in History Compass, the Journal of British Studies, and History of European Ideas. His forthcoming book explores the interactions of racial and sexual concepts and identities in eighteenth-century British culture.

"Interspecies Interactions urges us to mark out new intellectual and methodological territory in historical animal studies. Its chapters span continents, centuries and species in nuanced and revealing ways, celebrating the intertwined becomings of animals, humans and their historical environments. This coherent diversity will be valued by students and scholars across the humanities."

Peter Hobbins, The University of Sydney, Australia

"Interspecies Interactions offers original and compelling essays on early modern animals, decentralizing humans and offering new models for considering animal-human relations. Its broad range of places, animals, and approaches represents a new level of sophistication in the historical study of animals."

Anita Guerrini, Oregon State University, USA

"Scholarly and well written, Interspecies Interactions is sensitive to challenges inherent in researching historical animal studies, and will play an exemplary role in expanding the field. The eleven essays here span the period of the middle ages to modernity and are arranged within three helpful themes, ‘Empathy, Emotion and Companionship’, ‘Use and Abuse’, and ‘Identification and Classification’. In writing history that takes animal experience seriously, the book is a call for respect for the natural world not only in our past but also for our present and future."

Emily Brady, University of Edinburgh, UK