Interspecies Interactions surveys the rapidly developing field of human-animal relations in the early modern world and provides scholarly debate on its methods, challenges, and direction. Covering topics such as, emotion, cognition, empire, status and performance, this book is essential for students and scholars of historical animal studies.
"Interspecies Interactions urges us to mark out new intellectual and methodological territory in historical animal studies. Its chapters span continents, centuries and species in nuanced and revealing ways, celebrating the intertwined becomings of animals, humans and their historical environments. This coherent diversity will be valued by students and scholars across the humanities."
Peter Hobbins, The University of Sydney, Australia
"Interspecies Interactions offers original and compelling essays on early modern animals, decentralizing humans and offering new models for considering animal-human relations. Its broad range of places, animals, and approaches represents a new level of sophistication in the historical study of animals."
Anita Guerrini, Oregon State University, USA
"Scholarly and well written, Interspecies Interactions is sensitive to challenges inherent in researching historical animal studies, and will play an exemplary role in expanding the field. The eleven essays here span the period of the middle ages to modernity and are arranged within three helpful themes, 'Empathy, Emotion and Companionship', 'Use and Abuse', and 'Identification and Classification'. In writing history that takes animal experience seriously, the book is a call for respect for the natural world not only in our past but also for our present and future."
Emily Brady, University of Edinburgh, UK
