03374nam a2200421 a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095020003600112020003300148020002700181040002100208035002100229050002500250082001800275100002700293245011600320260006200436300001900498440002800517504006600545505019600611520149600807533015202303650002702455650005002482650007202532650007202604650002902676650003802705650002002743655002902763710001702792856012602809999001702935ebr10641605CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||100218s2010    paua    sb    001 0 eng d  z  2010004557  z9780812242492 (acid-free paper)  z0812242491 (acid-free paper)  z9780812201369 (e-book)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)79470069014aPR149.A7bB64 2010eb04a820.9/3742221 aBoehrer, Bruce Thomas.10aAnimal charactersh[electronic resource] :bnonhuman beings in early modern literature /cBruce Thomas Boehrer.  aPhiladelphia :bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,cc2010.  a238 p. :bill. 0aHaney Foundation series  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [209]-227) and index.0 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.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."  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2013.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aAnimals in literature. 0aCharacters and characteristics in literature. 0aEnglish literatureyEarly modern, 1500-1700xHistory and criticism. 0aEuropean literatureyRenaissance, 1450-1600xHistory and criticism. 0aSymbolism in literature. 0aAnimals, Mythical, in literature. 0aAnimals in art. 7aElectronic books.2local2 aebrary, Inc.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10641605zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view  c42885d42885