LEADER 04335nam 2200817 450 001 9910788595303321 005 20231214164853.0 010 $a1-283-88998-6 010 $a0-8122-0136-1 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812201369 035 $a(CKB)3240000000064526 035 $a(OCoLC)794700690 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10641605 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000631004 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11408409 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000631004 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10591850 035 $a(PQKB)10113116 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17941 035 $a(DE-B1597)448989 035 $a(OCoLC)1013963241 035 $a(OCoLC)979630901 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812201369 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441770 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10641605 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420248 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441770 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000064526 100 $a20100218d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAnimal characters $enonhuman beings in early modern literature /$fBruce Thomas Boehrer 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (245 p.) 225 0 $aHaney Foundation Series 225 0$aHaney Foundation series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-4249-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [209]-227) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: animal studies and the problem of character -- Baiardo's legacy -- The cardinal's parrot -- Ecce feles -- The people's peacock -- "Vulgar sheepe" -- Conclusion: O blazing world. 330 1 $a"Our 2500-Year-Long Fascination with the World's Most Talkative Bird Bruce Thomas Boehrer" "'As both a fiction writer and a lover of parrots, I was delighted and enlightened by Parrot Culture. This is an enchanting book."---Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain" "'Engrossing ... Bruce Thomas Boehrer concentrates his well-stocked mind on what over the centuries we humans have done to, and done with, parrots."---Times Literary Supplement" "During the Renaissance, horses---long considered the privileged, even sentient companions of knights-errant---gradually lost their special place on the field of battle and with it their distinctive status in the world of chivalric heroism. Parrots, once the miraculous, articulate companions of popes and emperors, declined into figures of mindless mimicry. Cats, which were tortured by Catholics in the Middle Ages, were tortured in the Reformation as part of the Protestant attack on Catholicism. And sheep, the model for Agnus Deiimagery, underwent transformations at once legal, material, and spiritual as a result of their changing role in Europe's growing manufacturing and trade economies. While in the Middle Ages, these nonhumans were endowed with privileged social associations, personal agency, even the ability to reason and speak, in the early modern period they lost these qualities at the very same time that a new emphasis on, and understanding of, human character was developing in European literature." 410 0$aHaney Foundation series. 606 $aAnimals in literature 606 $aCharacters and characteristics in literature 606 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEuropean literature$yRenaissance, 1450-1600$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSymbolism in literature 606 $aAnimals, Mythical, in literature 606 $aAnimals in art 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 615 0$aAnimals in literature. 615 0$aCharacters and characteristics in literature. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEuropean literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSymbolism in literature. 615 0$aAnimals, Mythical, in literature. 615 0$aAnimals in art. 676 $a820.9/374 700 $aBoehrer$b Bruce Thomas$0740384 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788595303321 996 $aAnimal characters$93777021 997 $aUNINA