Title: The horse as cultural icon : the real and the symbolic horse in the early modern world /
Authors: Edwards, Peter; Enenkel, K. A. E.; Graham, Elspeth, 1953-
Publisher: Brill,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Horses History.; Horses Social aspects History.; Horses in literature.; Pferd (Motiv); Pferd.; Statussymbol.; NATURE / Animals / Horses.; PETS / Horses / General.
Contents: The Duke of Newcastle's 'Love (...) for good horses' : an exploration of meanings / Elspeth Graham -- Visual aids : equestrian iconography and the training of horse, rider and reader / Pia F. Cuneo -- Big men, small horses : ridership, social standing and environmental adaptation in the early modern Philippines / Greg Bankoff -- Letting loose the horses : Sir Philip Sidney's exordium to The defence of poesie / Elizabeth Anne Socolow -- The legacy of Federico Grisone / Elizabeth M. Tobey -- Altering a race of jades : horse breeding and geohumoralism in Shakespeare / Ian F. MacInnes -- 'Beware a bastard breed' : notes towards a revisionist history of the thoroughbred racehorse / Richard Nash -- 'The most excellent of animal creatures' : health care for horses in early modern England / Louise Hill Curth -- 'Dark horses' : the horse in Africa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Sandra Swart -- The Renaissance studs of the Gonzagas of Mantua / Andrea Tonni -- Image and reality : upper class perceptions of the horse in early modern England / Peter Edwards -- 'Know us by our horses' : equine imagery in Shakespeare's Henriad / Jennifer Flaherty -- 'The author of their skill' : human and equine understanding in the Duke of Newcastle's 'New method' / Elaine Walker -- The military value of horses and the social value of the horse in early modern England / Gavin Robinson -- Forging iron and masculinity : farrier trade identities in early modern Germany / Amanda Eisemann.