Animals and courts: Europe, c. 1200-1800

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Table of Contents Introduction Meaningful Movements: Animal Circulation and Intercourt Relations Hunting with Cheetahs at European Courts: From the Origins to the End of a Fashion The Black Francolin: Assessing the Origins of a Prized Courtly Bird in an Interdisciplinary Manner Non-European Animals and the Construction of Royalty at the Renaissance Portuguese Court Animals as Agents of Networking and Cultural Transfer: The Dukes of Ferrara and their Relations to German Courts in the Sixteenth Century Formative Interactions: Horses, Dogs, and the Making of the Courtier On Courtly Discipline: Animal Rituals and Noble Self-fashioning in Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan Marketing Nobility: Horsemanship in Renaissance Italy Stable Design and Horse Management at the Italian Renaissance Court Horses, Bulls, and Cavaleiros at the Portuguese Court 1640–1800 Lively Representations: Animals, Rank, and Courtly Sociality Lively Representations: Animals, Rank, and Courtly Sociality Rubino, El Serpentino, Viola, and the Others: Renaissance Portraits of Dogs and Horses at the Court of the Gonzagas Staghounds and the Making of Excellence: Canine Knowledge and Royal Mastery in Sixteenth-Century France Royal Equipage on its Way: Carriages and Court Ceremonial in Eighteenth-Century Munich Unruly Display: The Challenges of Working with Animals in Swedish Royal Spectacle Coded Emotions: Animals, Love, and Gender Relations “God be with you, Sir Squirrel!” Pet Squirrels between Amorous Play and Animal Appetite, c. 1100–1650 A Woman’s Life: The Role of Pets in the Lives of Royal Women at the Courts of Europe from 1400–1800 “Triton as a friend”: A Dog’s Life at the Dessau Court, c. 1798–1811 Animal Deaths, Commemoration, and Afterlives at the Gonzaga Court and Beyond Epilogue Comment: Animals at Court: Interspecies Relations in a Longue Durée Perspective Indices Index of names Index of animals Index of places Index of concepts