CALL FOR PAPERS

INTERSECTIONS. Yearbook for Early Modern Studies 6 (2006)

Call for Papers for volume 6
Representations of animals in early modern Europe

In the humanities, early modern zoology is still a little disclosed
field of research. Therefore volume 6 of Intersections intends to
present a discussion of the representation of animals in literary,
pictorial and scholarly discourses, set against the background of the
historical and material context of early modern Europe. How does man
define his relation to the animal world? Which aspects are considered
important, which are suppressed? Which scholarly, literary and pictorial
conventions (rules of discourse) and parameters are involved in texts on
and images of animals? How do such scholarly and literary conventions
and preoccupations influence the ways in which animals are represented?
Particular interest will be focused on contributions that cut across
different areas of research or that trace long trends through different
historical periods and that illuminate the different modes and functions
of such representations.
When discussing scholarly and theological discourses the following
matters are of special interest: the modification of old systems of
classification and the creation of new ones, the development of anatomy
and the discovery of the microscope, the increased interest in insects,
scientific registration and artistic rendering of the fauna of the new
world, the creation and organization of zoological collections (e.g. in
the framework of the Wunderkammer) and menageries as precursors of the
present day zoos, the relative position of man and animal in divine
creation, changing ideas about the presence of a soul in animals, the
changing perceptions of man's right and duty towards animals.
Another field of inquiry is the extent to which scientific material and
historical principles have influenced the representation of animals in
literary and pictorial discourses. Possible topics in literature are the
various genres of poetry, the novel, emblem literature, fables, proverbs
or exempla miscellanies, sermons, contemplative writings, Physiologus;
in book history: the disclosure of zoological texts through indexes, the
use of classification systems like chapters or paragraphs, the use of
animal illustrations, the animal in cartography, the animal in the
illustrated Pliny; in art history: the creation and use of model books;
the functions of animal representations, differences in genre and media
(painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture); in history: the history of
collecting dead and/or living animals, the keeping of domestic animals,
hunting and its cultural settings, the different use of animals in
different walks of life.

The volume is scheduled to appear in 2006. Proposals, about 300 words,
should be sent to before june 15th 2004 to:

Karl Enenkel
Institute of Classical Studies
Department of Latin and Neo-Latin Literature
University of Leiden
P.O.Box 9515
2300 RA Leiden
e-mail: K.A.E.Enenkellet.leidenuniv.nl
<mailto:K.A.E.Enenkellet.leidenuniv.nl>
tel.: 0031 71 - 5272668 or 0031 71 - 5414610
For more information on this volume please contact Karl Enenkel.

General Information on Intersections:

This series of publications brings together new material on well
considered themes within the wide area of Early Modern Studies.
Contributions may come from any of the disciplines within the
humanities: history, art history, literary history, book history, church
history, social history, history of the humanities, of the theatre, of
cultural life and institutions. Each yearbook addresses a single theme
and articles are selected for the freshness of their approach and for
the extent to which they elucidate aspects of the theme of the volume.
The themes are carefully selected on the basis of a number of criteria,
the most important of which are that they should address issues about
which there is a lively and ongoing debate within the international
community of scholars and that they should be of interest to a variety
of disciplines. Although it is to be expected that in each volume a fair
amount of attention will be paid to the Low Countries, it is a matter of
editorial policy that the theme of each yearbook will be approached with
an eye to its European dimension.

General editor: Dr. Karl Enenkel
Institute of Classical Studies
Department of Latin and Neo-Latin Literature
University of Leiden
P.O.Box 9515
2300 RA Leiden
e-mail: K.A.E.Enenkellet.leidenuniv.nl
<mailto:K.A.E.Enenkellet.leidenuniv.nl>
tel.: 0031 71 - 5272668 or 0031 71- 5414610

Editorial secretary: Dr. Jan L. de Jong
Institute for the History of Art and Architecture,
Groningen University,
P.O. Box 716,
9700 AS Groningen,
The Netherlands,
e-mail: J.L.de.Jonglet.rug.nl
tel.: 0031 50 - 3636091, fax: 0031 50 - 3637362