Caring for Animals at the Italian Renaissance Court
Join Dr Sarah Cockram at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on Wednesday 26th February to explore the lives of animals and humans at the Italian Renaissance court!
About Caring for Animals at the Italian Renaissance Court
| 26th February 2025 | |
| 6pm - 7pm | |
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Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 9 Queen Street, Edinburgh New Town EH2 1JQ |
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| ££3 / Free for students, under 18s or Fellows and Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh | |
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The courts of Renaissance Italy were multispecies environments, home to an array of animals. This talk will consider both practical and affective care for these courtly creatures. It investigates the logistics of tending to high status menagerie beasts (whose needs may be difficult to know or to accommodate), of ensuring that hunt animals were on their finest form, and of looking after monkeys, birds, dogs or cats living as favoured companions of the ruling family. Who cared for, and about, the animals at court? What did they do for these animals, and why? And what did this mean for human and animal lives?
Sarah Cockram is a historian of the late medieval and early modern periods, particularly of Renaissance Italy, specialising in gender history and historical animal studies. Sarah is a Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Glasgow and an Honorary Fellow in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh.
Students and under 18s with ID cards and Fellows or Members of the College will be admitted free of charge. Please email library@rcpe.ac.uk to be added to the attendee list.
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