Raber, Karen
The Culture of the Horse
1. Introduction
Karen Raber, Treva J. Tucker
Part I. Power and Status
2. Cultural Convergence: The Equine Connection between Muscovy and Europe
Ann M. Kleimola
3. The
Elizabeth Tobey
4. Shakespeare and the Social Devaluation of the Horse
Bruce Boehrer
5. “Faith, Say a Man Should Steal Ye—and Feed Ye Fatter”: Equine Hunger and Theft in
Kevin Ornellas
Part II. Discipline and Control
6. Just a Bit of Control: The Historical Significance of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century German Bit-Books
Pia F. Cuneo
7. Man and Horse in Harmony
Elisabeth LeGuin
8. From
Kate Orden
Part III. Identity and Self-Definition
9. A Horse of a Different Color: Nation and Race in Early Modern Horsemanship Treatises
Karen Raber
10. “Honest English Breed”: The Thoroughbred as Cultural Metaphor
Richard Nash
11. Early Modern French Noble Identity and the Equestrian “Airs above the Ground”
Treva J. Tucker
12. “Horses! Give Me More Horses!”: White Settler Identity, Horses, and the Making of Early Modern South Africa
Sandra Swart
13. Learning to Ride in Early Modern Britain, or, The Making of the English Hunting Seat
Donna Landry
Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Cultural History, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Cultural Studies
- Editor
- Raber, Karen
- Tucker, Treva J.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2005
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Early Modern Cultural Studies
- Page amount
- 388 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137097255
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-73321-7