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 Early Modern Zoology - The Construction of Animals in Science, Literature and the Visual Arts (gnv64)(h33t)









Early Modern Zoology - The Construction of Animals in Science, Literature and the Visual Arts


By Karl A.E. Enenkel., Paul J.Smith


BRILL | 2007 | ISBN: 9004131884 | 700 pages | PDF | 18.4 mb





In this volume, specialists from various disciplines (Neo-Latin, French, German, Dutch, History, History of Science, Art History) explore the fascinating early modern discourses on animals in science, literature and the visual arts.





CONTENTS





VOLUME ONE


List of Illustrations ...................................................................... ix


Notes on the Editors ................................................................... xxiii


List of Contributors .................................................................... xxv


Introduction ................................................................................ 1


Karl A.E. Enenkel – Paul J. Smith


Colour plates I–XXXI


ZOOLOGY:


THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN EARLY MODERN SCIENCE


Zur Konstituierung der Zoologie als Wissenschaft in der


Frühen Neuzeit: Diskursanalyse zweier Großprojekte


(Wotton, Gesner) ..................................................................... 15


Karl A.E. Enenkel


On Toucans and Hornbills: Readings in Early Modern


Ornithology from Belon to Buffon ......................................... 75


Paul J. Smith


Biology and Theology in Franzius’s Historia animalium sacra


(1612) ....................................................................................... 121


Vibeke Roggen


Between Emblematics and the ‘Argument from Design’:


The Representation of Insects in the Dutch Republic ......... 147


Eric Jorink


Shell Collecting. On 17th-Century Conchology, Curiosity


Cabinets and Still Life Painting ............................................. 177


Karin Leonhard


THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ANIMAL


IN ZOOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATIONS


In minimis maxime conspicua. Insektendarstellungen um


1600 und die Anfänge der Entomologie ............................... 217


Thea Vignau-Wilberg


Curious Fish: Connections between some Sixteenth-Century


Watercolours and Prints ......................................................... 245


Florike Egmond


From Brazil to Europe: the Zoological Drawings of


Albert Eckhout and Georg Marcgraf .................................... 273


Rebecca P. Brienen





VOLUME TWO


THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ANIMAL IN


ITS EARLY MODERN USE AND ABUSE


Making and Breaking the Stag: The Construction of the


Animal in the Early Modern Hunting Treatise ..................... 317


Suzanne J. Walker


(Un)Stable Identities: Hippology and the Professionalization


of Scholarship and Horsemanship in Early Modern


Germany ................................................................................. 339


Pia F. Cuneo


‘A Remedy for his Beast’: Popular Veterinary Texts in Early


Modern England .................................................................... 361


Louise Hill Curth


Dehumanised Sinners and their Instruments of Sin:


Men and Animals in Early Modern Bestiality Cases,


Austria 1500–1800 .................................................................. 381


Susanne Hehenberger


Renaissance Menageries. Exotic Animals and Pets at the


Habsburg Courts in Iberia and Central Europe ................... 419


Almudena Pérez de Tudela – Annemarie Jordan


Gschwend


THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ANIMAL


IN LITERATURE AND IN THE VISUAL ARTS


Noah’s Ark Disembarked in Holland: Animals in


Dutch Poetry, 1500–1700 ....................................................... 451


Johan Koppenol


Octopuses, Foxes and Hares: Animals in Early Modern Latin


and German Proverbs ............................................................ 529


Franziska Schnoor


A Zoological Emblem Book: Willem van der Borcht’s Sedighe


Sinne-beelden (1642) ................................................................... 547


Vincent Buyens


Faire le beau pour faire la paix: Considérations sur les bêtes


dressées de Joseph Boillot (1592) ............................................ 567


Paulette Choné


Life and Death in the Northern European Game Piece .......... 603


Sarah R. Cohen


Index Nominum ......................................................................... 641