Animal characters [electronic resource] : nonhuman beings in early modern literature / Bruce Thomas Boehrer.
Boehrer, Bruce Thomas.
2010
PR149.A7 B64 2010eb
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Title Animal characters [electronic resource] : nonhuman beings in early modern literature / Bruce Thomas Boehrer.
Author Boehrer, Bruce Thomas.
ISBN 9780812242492 (acid-free paper)
0812242491 (acid-free paper)
9780812201369 (e-book)
Publication Details Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.
Language English
Description 238 p. : ill.
Call Number PR149.A7 B64 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 820.9/374
Summary "Our 2500-Year-Long Fascination with the World's Most Talkative Bird Bruce Thomas Boehrer" "'As both a fiction writer and a lover of parrots, I was delighted and enlightened by Parrot Culture. This is an enchanting book."---Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain" "'Engrossing ... Bruce Thomas Boehrer concentrates his well-stocked mind on what over the centuries we humans have done to, and done with, parrots."---Times Literary Supplement" "During the Renaissance, horses---long considered the privileged, even sentient companions of knights-errant---gradually lost their special place on the field of battle and with it their distinctive status in the world of chivalric heroism. Parrots, once the miraculous, articulate companions of popes and emperors, declined into figures of mindless mimicry. Cats, which were tortured by Catholics in the Middle Ages, were tortured in the Reformation as part of the Protestant attack on Catholicism. And sheep, the model for Agnus Deiimagery, underwent transformations at once legal, material, and spiritual as a result of their changing role in Europe's growing manufacturing and trade economies. While in the Middle Ages, these nonhumans were endowed with privileged social associations, personal agency, even the ability to reason and speak, in the early modern period they lost these qualities at the very same time that a new emphasis on, and understanding of, human character was developing in European literature."
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-227) and index.
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Series Haney Foundation series
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Introduction: animal studies and the problem of character
Baiardo's legacy
The cardinal's parrot
Ecce feles
The people's peacock
"Vulgar sheepe"
Conclusion: O blazing world.

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