Download or read book Animals and Early Modern Identity written by Professor Pia F. Cuneo and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-09-28 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What roles did animals play in the construction of early modern identities? In this volume, international scholars working in the disciplines of history, art history and literature provide suggestive and probing answers. Their essays investigate how animals - horses, dogs, pigs, fish, cattle, sheep, birds, rhinoceroses, even sea-monsters and other creatures - served people in Europe, England, the Americas and Africa to defend, contest or transcend the boundaries of early modern identities.