Renaissance Animal Things

Fudge, Erica; Landes, Joan B. and Lee, Paula Young and Youngquist, Paul, eds. (2012) Renaissance Animal Things. In: Gorgeous Beasts. Pennsylvania State University Press, Philadelphia, pp. 41-56. ISBN 978-0-271-05401-8

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Abstract

This chapter uses thing theory to explore the uses of two animal things common in Renaissane culture: leather and civet. It argues that, even as the animal is dismembered and its parts used in the manufacture of commodities - gloves, perfume - those objects have a power to change the world in which they are used: that animal things are not inert, and are not simply evidence of human dominion, but are themselves active presences in culture.

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Fudge, Erica ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6903-7205

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  Item type:	Book Section
  ID code:	44351
  Dates:	Date Event 28 September 2012 Published
  Subjects:	History General and Old World
  Department:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Humanities > English
  Depositing user:	Pure Administrator
  Date deposited:	18 Jul 2013 08:44
  Last modified:	28 Feb 2025 01:09
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  URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/44351