Cultural History of Animals in the Renaissance

Bruce Boehrer is Professor of English at Florida State University, author of Parrot Culture: Our 2500-Year-Long Fascination with the World's Most Talkative Bird and Shakespeare Among the Animals: Nature and Society in the Drama of Early Modern England.

• Introduction: The Animal RenaissanceBruce Boehrer, Florida State University 1. A 'Foule Fowle': The Marginalised Cormorant in the RenaissanceKevin De Ornellas, Queen's University, Belfast 2. Hunting Rites and Animals Rights in the RenaissanceCharles Bergman, Pacific Lutheran University 3. Domesticated Animals in Renaissance EuropePeter Edwards, Roehampton University 4. Entertaining Animals 1558-1625Teresa Grant, University of Warwick 5. The Relation Between Discourse and Illustrations in Natural History Treatises of the Mid-Sixteenth CenturyPhilippe Glardon, Institut Universitaire d'Histoire de la Medecine at Lausanne 6. Philosophers and Animals in the RenaissanceStefano Perfetti, University of Pisa 7. Meticulous Depiction: Animals in Art, 1400-1600, Victoria DickensonMcCord Museum, McGill University Notes Bibliography Index

The Cultural History of Animals presents an innovative and compelling introduction to current scholarship about the historical relationships between people and other animals.