Early modern English thinkers were fascinated by the subject of animal rationality, even before the appearance of Descartes's Discourse on the Method (1637) and its famous ...

An anthology that addresses and reassesses how animals were used and regarded in Renaissance culture, the contributors to this unusual collection challenge contemporary as well ...

FOCI is a series that focuses on the contemporary issues, pressing problems, ideas and debates of the new millennium. 'Animal' provides an overview of the way humans interact ...

'When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?' - Michel de Montaigne. Why do we live with pets? Is there something more to our ...

'When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?' - Michel de Montaigne. Why do we live with pets? Is there something more to our ...

What is, what was the human? This book argues that the making of the human as it is now understood implies a renegotiation of the relationship between the self and the world ...

What was the life of a cow in early modern England like? What would it be like to milk that same cow, day-in, day-out, for over a decade? How did people feel about and toward ...

Early modern English thinkers were fascinated by the subject of animal rationality, even before the appearance of Descartes's Discourse on the Method (1637) and its famous ...