Horse as Cultural Icon

Peter Edwards, D.Phil. (Oxon 1976), is Professor of Early Modern British Social History at Roehampton University London. He has published extensively on the role of horses in early modern society, including the book, Horse and Man in Early Modern England.Karl A.E. Enenkel, Ph.D. (Leiden, 1990) is Professor of Medieval and Neo-Latin Literature at the University of Münster, Germany, and member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He has published on international Humanism, the reception of Classical Antiquity, the history of ideas, literary genres and emblem studies. Elspeth Graham, Ph.D. (Manchester, 1986) is Head of English and Reader in Early Modern Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. She has published on seventeenth-century women's writing and religious radicalism as well as on early-modern and modern horse cultures.

• Notes on the EditorsNotes on the ContributorsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsINTRODUCTION: THE HORSE AS CULTURAL ICON: THE REAL AND THE SYMBOLIC HORSE IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLDPeter Edwards and Elspeth GrahamI. HORSEMANSHIP AND STATUSTHE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE'S 'LOVE [...] FOR GOOD HORSES': AN EXPLORATION OF MEANINGSElspeth GrahamVISUAL AIDS: EQUESTRIAN ICONOGRAPHYAND THE TRAINING OF HORSE, RIDER AND READERPia F. CuneoBIG MEN, SMALL HORSES: RIDERSHIP, SOCIAL STANDING AND ENVIRONMENTAL ADAPTATION IN THE EARLY MODERN PHILIPPINESGreg BankoffLETTING LOOSE THE HORSES: SIR PHILIP SIDNEY’S EXORDIUM TO THE DEFENCE OF POESIEElizabeth SocolowTHE LEGACY OF FEDERICO GRISONEElizabeth M. Tobey II. HORSE BREEDINGALTERING A RACE OF JADES: HORSE BREEDING AND GEOHUMORALISM IN SHAKESPEAREIan F. MacInnes“BEWARE A BASTARD BREED”: NOTES TOWARDS A REVISIONIST HISTORY OF THE THOROUGHBRED RACEHORSERichard Nash‘THE MOST EXCELLENT OF ANIMAL CREATURES:HEALTH CARE FOR HORSES IN EARLY MODERN ENGLANDLouise Hill Curth“DARK HORSES”. THE HORSE IN AFRICA IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES Sandra SwartTHE RENAISSANCE STUDS OF THE GONZAGAS OF MANTUAAndrea Tonni III. HORSE-HUMAN IDENTITIESIMAGE AND REALITY: UPPER CLASS PERCEPTIONS OF THE HORSE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLANDPeter Edwards‘KNOW US BY OUR HORSES’: EQUINE IMAGERY IN SHAKESPEARE’S HENRIADJennifer Flaherty‘THE AUTHOR OF THEIR SKILL’: HUMAN AND EQUINE UNDERSTANDING IN THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE’S ‘NEW METHOD’Elaine WalkerTHE MILITARY VALUE OF HORSES AND THE SOCIAL VALUE OF THE HORSE IN EARLY-MODERN ENGLANDGavin RobinsonFORGING IRON AND MASCULINITY: FARRIER TRADE IDENTITIES IN EARLY MODERN GERMANYAmanda Eisemann