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 acknowledgments Any collection of essays is,by necessity,a collaborative enterprise,and I would like first of all to thank the contributors for their work.It has been a real pleasure bringing these essays together.Help has also come from Lawrence Normand , Patricia Parker, Jonathan Burt, and David Kastan, for which I am extremely grateful.Tracey Hill and I co-organized a conference,“Animals in History and Culture,” at Bath Spa University College in 1999 at which a number of the contributors here first came together, and I am immensely grateful to Tracey for all her work on the conference. Carol Anne Peschke copyedited the collection with precision, and the collection has also benefited greatly from the work of Elizabeth Dulany at the University of Illinois Press. Her interest in and support of all things animal is a gift to those of us in the field, and this collection is a tribute to her. Throughout, early modern u, v, i, and j have been silently modernized. In some essays gendered terms such as man, mankind, and horsemanship are used. Although these terms may cause discomfort to modern readers, they reflect early modern usage, which prioritized the male over the female and often (in relation to horsemanship, for instance) assumed a male subject . ...

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