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

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