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Renaissance Beasts - Of Animals, Humans, and Other Wonderful Creatures (Hardcover, New)
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Renaissance Beasts - Of Animals, Humans, and Other Wonderful Creatures (Hardcover, New)
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Animals, as Levi-Strauss wrote, are good to think with. This
collection addresses and reassesses the variety of ways in which
animals were used and thought about in Renaissance culture,
challenging contemporary as well as historic views of the
boundaries and hierarchies humans presume the natural world to
contain. Taking as its starting point the popularity of speaking
animals in sixteenth-century literature and ending with the decline
of the imperial Menagerie during the French Revolution, Renaissance
Beasts uses the lens of human-animal relationships to view issues
as diverse as human status and power, diet, civilization and the
political life, religion and anthropocentrism, spectacle and
entertainment, language, science and skepticism, and domestic and
courtly cultures. Within these pages scholars from a variety of
disciplines discuss numerous kinds of texts--literary, dramatic,
philosophical, religious, political--by writers including Calvin,
Montaigne, Sidney, Shakespeare, Descartes, Boyle, and Locke.
Through analysis of these and other writers, Renaissance Beasts
uncovers new and arresting interpretations of Renaissance culture
and the broader social assumptions glimpsed through views on
matters such as pet ownership and meat consumption. Renaissance
Beasts is certainly about animals, but of the many species
discussed, it is ultimately humankind that comes under the greatest
scrutiny.
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