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Sleeve cat and lap dog: affection, aesthetics and proximity to companion animals in Renaissance Mantua
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Sleeve cat and lap dog: affection, aesthetics and proximity to companion animals in Renaissance Mantua
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Introduction: action, reaction, interaction in historical animal studies
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“A horse is a feeling animal”: interspecies interaction and animal agency in Renaissance warfare
No full textIn The Art of War (1521), Machiavelli describes the horse as ‘a feeling animal’, highlighting animal individuality and human-horse understanding. This chapter explores such interspecies interaction, approaching Renaissance warfare as a multispecies experience. It considers the impact of war on animals, and vice versa, arguing that animal agency fundamentally affected the military enterprise. The chapter begins with theories of agency and, in relation to the Italian Wars (1494-1559), takes up the proposal that the well-functioning horse and rider worked as a ‘unity’. Moving beyond the equine, it examines canine, feline, and parasitic agents of war. This chapter’s more-than-human perspective calls for inclusive conception of agency, serious investigation of interrelationships among and between species, and the rethinking of traditional military histories
Inveterate Travellers and Travelling Invertebrates: Human and Animal in Enlightenment Entomology
No full textInveterate Travellers and Travelling Invertebrates: Human and Animal in Enlightenment Entomology
No full textThe actor-author in Castiglione’s Cortegiano: “lo esser travestito porta seco una certa libertà e licenzia”
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Interspecies Interactions: Animals and Humans between the Middle Ages and Modernity
No full textInterspecies Interactions surveys the rapidly developing field of human-animal relations from the late medieval and early modern eras through to the mid-Victorian period. By viewing animals as authentic and autonomous historical agents who had a real impact on the world around them, this book concentrates on an under-examined but crucial aspect of the human-animal relationship: interaction
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