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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453501103321

Autore

De Ornellas Kevin

Titolo

The horse in early modern English culture : bridled, curbed, and tamed / / Kevin De Ornellas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison [New Jersey] : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-61147-659-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Disciplina

636.100941

Soggetti

Horses - Social aspects - Great Britain

Horses - Great Britain - History

Electronic books.

Great Britain Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Pricked more with the spur then the provender : hungry horses and Woodstock -- Agency and/or containment? : man/woman and horse/rider relationships in early modern England -- Trampling on the bald pate : Morocco the wonder horse and the humiliation of St. Paul's -- Laying the world on your mare : the corrupt horse-race in Shirley's Hide Parke -- Constructed combatants : political steeds before, during, and after the Civil Wars -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book digs deep into English Renaissance culture to interrogate representations of horses in the period: it is argues that, ultimately, the horse was a byword for the subjugated and repressed: to be metaphorically like a horse in early modern England is to be bridled, tamed, and curbed.