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The Horse as Cultural Icon: The Real and the Symbolic Horse in the Early Modern World

The Horse as Cultural Icon: The Real and the Symbolic Horse in the Early Modern World

Edwards, Peter
Enenkel, Karl A. E.
Graham, Elspeth

Hardcover

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral Art InstructionHorses

ISBN10: 900421206X
ISBN13: 9789004212060
Publisher: Brill
Published: Oct 14 2011
Pages: 410
Weight: 1.85
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.60 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
In modern Western society horses appear as unexpected visitors: not quite exotic, but not familiar either. This estrangement between humans and horses is a recent one since, until the 1930s, horses were fully present in the everyday world. Indeed, as well as performing utilitarian functions, horses possessed iconic appeal. But, despite the importance of horses, scholars have paid little attention to their lives, roles and meanings. This volume helps to redress the balance. It considers the value that the influential elite placed on horses as essential accompaniments to their way of life and as status symbols, as well as the role that horses played in society as a whole and the people who used and cared for them.

Contributors include Greg Bankoff, Pia F. Cuneo, Louise Hill Curth, Amanda Eisemann, Jennifer Flaherty, Ian F. MacInnes, Richard Nash, Gavin Robinson, Elizabeth Anne Socolow, Sandra Swart, Elizabeth M. Tobey, Andrea Tonni, and Elaine Walker.

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