Synopses & Reviews
This volume investigates the changing roles of animals in medieval culture, economy and society in the period 1000 to 1400. The period saw significant changes in scientific and philosophical approaches to animals as well as their representation in art. Animals were omnipresent in medieval everyday life. They had enormous importance for medieval agriculture and trade and were also hunted for food and used in popular entertainments. At the same time, animals were kept as pets and used to display their owner's status, while medieval religion attributed complex symbolic meanings to animals. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Animals, this volume presents an overview of the period and continues with essays on the position of animals in contemporary Symbolism, Hunting, Domestication, Sports and Entertainment, Science, Philosophy, and Art. Volume 2 in the Cultural History of Animals edited by Linda Kalof and Brigitte Resl
Synopsis
This volume explores the cultural position of animals in the period from 1800 to 1920. This was a time of extraordinary social, political and economic change as the Western world rapidly industrialized and modernized. The Enlightenment had attempted to define the human self; the Age of Empire pulled animals and humans further apart.
As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Animals, this volume presents an overview of the period and continues with essays on the position of animals in contemporary Symbolism, Hunting, Domestication, Sports and Entertainment, Science, Philosophy, and Art.
Volume 5 in the Cultural History of Animals edited by Linda Kalof and Brigitte Resl
Synopsis
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008. A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire explores the cultural position of animals in the period from 1800 to 1920. This was a time of extraordinary social, political and economic change as the Western world rapidly industrialised and modernised. The Enlightenment had attempted to define the human self; the Age of Empire pulled animals and humans further apart. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Animals, this volume presents an overview of the period and continues with essays on the position of animals in contemporary Symbolism, Hunting, Domestication, Sports and Entertainment, Science, Philosophy, and Art. Volume 5 in the Cultural History of Animals edited by Linda Kalof and Brigitte Resl.
About the Author
Brigitte Resl is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Liverpool and is author of Understanding Animals, 1150-1350 and co-author of Writing Nature in the Early Middle Ages.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Animals and Human Empire, Kathleen Kete, Trinity College, Hartford 1. The Moment of Greyfriars Bobby: The Changing Cultural Position of Animals in Europe, Hilda Kean, Ruskin College, Oxford 2. Hunting Empires in Britain and the United States, Daniel Herman, Central Washington University 3. Domestication of Empire: Human-Animal Relations at the Intersection of Civilisation and Acclimatisation in the Nineteenth Century, Dorothee Brantz, Department of History, SUNY Buffalo 4. How the Caged Bird Sings: Entertainment and the Exhibition of Animals, Nigel Rothfels, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 5. From Birds of Paradise to Drosophila: The Changing Roles of Scientific Specimens in Europe and America to 1920, Narisara Murray, Independent Scholar, Cambodia 6. Philosophy and Animals in the Age of Empire, Mark Rowlands, Department of Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire 7. Narrative Dominion or The Animals Write Back? Animal Genres in Literature and the Arts, Teresa Mangum, Department of English, University of Iowa Notes Bibliography Index