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

CONTENTS\n......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Notes on the Editors......Page 24
List of Contributors......Page 26
Introduction (Karl A.E. Enenkel – Paul J. Smith)......Page 30
Colour Plates......Page 42
ZOOLOGY: THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN EARLY MODERN SCIENCE......Page 74
Zur Konstituierung der Zoologie als Wissenschaft in der Frühen Neuzeit: Diskursanalyse zweier Großprojekte (Wotton, Gesner) (Karl A.E. Enenkel)......Page 76
On Toucans and Hornbills: Readings in Early Modern Ornithology from Belon to Buffon (Paul J. Smith)......Page 136
Biology and Theology in Franzius\'s Historia animalium sacra (1612) (Vibeke Roggen)......Page 182
Between Emblematics and the \'Argument from Design\': The Representation of Insects in the Dutch Republic (Eric Jorink)......Page 208
Shell Collecting. On 17th-Century Conchology, Curiosity Cabinets and Still Life Painting (Karin Leonhard)......Page 238
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ANIMAL IN ZOOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 276
In minimis maxime conspicua. Insektendarstellungen um 1600 und die Anfänge der Entomologie (Thea Vignau-Wilberg)......Page 278
Curious Fish: Connections between some Sixteenth-Century Watercolours and Prints (Florike Egmond)......Page 306
From Brazil to Europe: the Zoological Drawings of Albert Eckhout and Georg Marcgraf (Rebecca P. Brienen)......Page 334
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ANIMAL IN ITS EARLY MODERN USE AND ABUSE......Page 384
Making and Breaking the Stag: The Construction of the Animal in the Early Modern Hunting Treatise (Suzanne J. Walker)......Page 386
(Un)Stable Identities: Hippology and the Professionalization of Scholarship and Horsemanship in Early Modern Germany (Pia F. Cuneo)......Page 408
\'A Remedy for his Beast\': Popular Veterinary Texts in Early Modern England (Louise Hill Curth)......Page 430
Dehumanised Sinners and their Instruments of Sin: Men and Animals in Early Modern Bestiality Cases, Austria 1500–1800 (Susanne Hehenberger)......Page 450
Renaissance Menageries. Exotic Animals and Pets at the Habsburg Courts in Iberia and Central Europe (Almudena Pérez de Tudela – Annemarie Jordan Gschwend)......Page 488
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ANIMAL IN LITERATURE AND IN THE VISUAL ARTS......Page 518
Noah\'s Ark Disembarked in Holland: Animals in Dutch Poetry, 1500–1700 (Johan Koppenol)......Page 520
Octopuses, Foxes and Hares: Animals in Early Modern Latin and German Proverbs (Franziska Schnoor)......Page 598
A Zoological Emblem Book: Willem van der Borcht\'s Sedighe Sinne-beelden (1642) (Vincent Buyens)......Page 616
Faire le beau pour faire la paix: Considérations sur les bêtes dressées de Joseph Boillot (1592) (Paulette Choné)......Page 636
Life and Death in the Northern European Game Piece (Sarah R. Cohen)......Page 672
Index Nominum......Page 710