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McGregor, Francine, Equine Medicine and Popular Romance in Late Medieval England, Leiden, Brill (Nature, Culture and Literature, 18), 2023, 174 pp.
- Resum
- Equine Medicine and Popular Romance in Late Medieval England explores a seldom-studied trove of English veterinary manuals, illuminating how the daily care of horses they describe reshapes our understanding of equine representation in the popular romance of late medieval England. A saint removes a horse's leg the more easily to shoe him; a wild horse transforms spur wounds into the self-healing practice of bleeding; a messenger calculates time through his horse's body. Such are the rich and conflicted visions of horse/human connection in the period. Exploring this imagined relation, Francine McGregor reveals a cultural undercurrent in which medieval England is so reliant on equine bodies that human anxieties, desires, and very orientation in daily life are often figured through them. This book illuminates the complex and contradictory yearnings shaping medieval perceptions of the horse, the self, and the identities born of their affinity.
Conté:
Introduction · 1–13
Chapter 1 Hippiatric Manuals and Horse Hooves · 14–40
Chapter 2 “Unmaking” Animal Bodies · 41–68
Chapter 3 Reining Fantasies: Bridles, Will, and Animal Inwardness · 69–91
Chapter 4 Equine Bodies and Human Time, or, Saddling Space and Time · 92–116
Chapter 5 “As Hot as He May Suffer It”: Pain, Touch, and Healing · 117–145
Conclusion · 146–151
Informació de l'editor 
- Matèries
- Història de la veterinària
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