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The Horse as Cultural Icon: The Real and the Symbolic Horse in the Early Modern World (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004212060)
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xIn 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
ISBN-10: 900421206X
ISBN-13: 9789004212060
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 10/14/2011
Pages: 410
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.60w x 1.10d
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
ISBN-10: 900421206X
ISBN-13: 9789004212060
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 10/14/2011
Pages: 410
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.60w x 1.10d
By Peter Edwards
xPeter Edwards, D.Phil. (Oxon 1976), is Professor of Early Modern British Social History at Roehampton University London. He has published extensively on the role of horses in early modern society, including the book, Horse and Man in Early Modern England.
Karl A.E. Enenkel, Ph.D. (Leiden, 1990) is Professor of Medieval and Neo-Latin Literature at the University of Münster, Germany, and member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He has published on international Humanism, the reception of Classical Antiquity, the history of ideas, literary genres and emblem studies.
Elspeth Graham, Ph.D. (Manchester, 1986) is Head of English and Reader in Early Modern Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. She has published on seventeenth-century women's writing and religious radicalism as well as on early-modern and modern horse cultures.
Karl A.E. Enenkel, Ph.D. (Leiden, 1990) is Professor of Medieval and Neo-Latin Literature at the University of Münster, Germany, and member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He has published on international Humanism, the reception of Classical Antiquity, the history of ideas, literary genres and emblem studies.
Elspeth Graham, Ph.D. (Manchester, 1986) is Head of English and Reader in Early Modern Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. She has published on seventeenth-century women's writing and religious radicalism as well as on early-modern and modern horse cultures.
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