Interspecies Interactions: Animals and Humans between the Middle Ages and Modernity

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents List of figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction: action, reaction, interaction in historical animal studies PART I: Empathy, emotion, and companionship 1 Emotions and the sixteenth-century Ottoman carnival of animals 2 Sleeve cat and lap dog: affection, aesthetics and proximity to companion animals in renaissance Mantua 3 Equine empathies: giving voice to horses in early modern Germany PART II: Use and abuse 4 The tale of a horse: the Levinz Colt, 1721–29 5 Animals at the table: performing meat in early modern England and Europe 6 Blurred lines: bestiality and the human ape in Enlightenment Scotland 7 ‘A disgusting exhibition of brutality’: animals, the law, and the Warwick lion fight of 1825 PART III: Self and other: identification and classification 8 Inveterate travellers and travelling invertebrates: human and animal in Enlightenment entomology 9 Hungarian grey cattle: parallels in constituting animal and human identities 10 ‘The Monster’s Mouth…’: dangerous animals and the European settlement of Australia Afterword Index