Early Modern Zoology: The Construction of Animals in Science, Literature and the Visual Arts (2 vols.)

Karl A.E. Enenkel is Professor of Neo-Latin Literature at Leiden University and teaches classical Latin and Neo-Latin in the Department of Classics. He has published extensively on international Humanism and on the reception of Classical Antiquity and is the general editor of Intersections. Yearbook for Early Modern Studies.Paul J. Smith is Professor of French Literature at Leiden University. His research focuses on 16th-, 17th - and 20th-century French literature, its reception in the Netherlands, French and Dutch fable and emblem books and literary rhetoric. He is member of the editorial board of Intersections, Montaigne Studies and Neophilologus.

• List of IllustrationsNotes on the Editors of this VolumeList of Contributors1. Introduction: Early Modern Zoology. The Construction of Animals in Science, Literature and the Visual Arts, Karl A. E. Enenkel & Paul J. SmithZOOLOGY: THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN EARLY MODERN SCIENCE2. Zur Konstituierung der Zoologie als Wissenschaft in der Frühen Neuzeit: Diskursanalyse zweier Großprojekte (Wotton, Gesner), Karl A. E. Enenkel3. On Toucans and Hornbills. Readings in Early Modern Ornithology from Belon to Buffon, Paul J. Smith4. Biology and Theology in Franzius’s Historia animalium sacra (1612), Vibeke Roggen5. Between Emblematics and the `Argument from Design’: The Representation of Insects in the Dutch Republic, Eric Jorink6. Shell Collecting. On 17th Century Conchology, Curiosity Cabinets and Still Life Painting, Karin LeonhardTHE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ANIMAL IN ZOOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATIONS7. In minimis maxime conspicua. Insektendarstellungen um 1600 und die Anfänge der Entomologie, Thea Vignau-Wilberg8. Curious Fish: Connections between some Sixteenth-Century Watercolours and Prints, Florike Egmond9. From Brazil to Europe: the Zoological Drawings of Albert Eckhout and Georg Marcgraf, Rebecca Parker BrienenTHE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ANIMAL IN ITS EARLY MODERN USE AND ABUSE10. Making and Breaking the Stag: The Construction of the Animal in the Early Modern Hunting Treatise, Suzanne Jablonski Walker11. (Un)Stable Identities: Hippology and the Professionalization of Scholarship and Horsemanship in Early Modern Germany, Pia Cuneo12. `A Remedy for his Beast’: Popular Veterinary Texts in Early Modern England, Louise Hill Curth13. Dehumanised Sinners and their Instruments of Sin: Men and Animals in Early Modern Bestiality Cases, Austria 1500-1800, Susanne Hehenberger14. Renaissance Menageries. Exotic Animals and Pets at the Habsburg Courts in Iberia and Central Europe, Annemarie Jordan-Gschwend & Almudena Pérez de TudelaTHE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ANIMAL IN LITERATURE AND IN THE VISUAL ARTS15. Noah’s Ark Disembarked in Holland: Animals in Dutch Poetry, 1500-1700, Johan Koppenol16. Octopuses, Foxes and Hares: Animals in Early Modern Latin and German Proverbs, Franziska Schnoor17. A Zoological Emblem Book: Willem Van der Borcht’s Sedige Sinn-belden (1642), Vincent Buyens18. Faire le beau pour faire la paix. Considérations sur les bêtes dressées de Joseph Boillot (1592), Paulette Choné19. Life and Death in the Northern European Game Piece, Sarah CohenIndex