Zoology in Early Modern Culture: Intersections of Science, Theology, Philology, and Political and Religious Education

547 Pages·2014·23.696 MB·English

by  Karl A. E. Enenkel

Zoology in Early Modern Culture
Intersections
Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture
General Editor
Karl A.E. Enenkel
Chair of Medieval and Neo-Latin Literature
Westfälische Wilhelmsuniversität Münster
e-mail: kenen_01@uni_muenster.de
Editorial Board
W. van Anrooij (University of Leiden)
W. de Boer (Miami University)
Chr. Göttler (University of Bern)
J.L. de Jong (University of Groningen)
W.S. Melion (Emory University)
R. Seidel (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)
P.J. Smith (University of Leiden)
J. Thompson (Queen’s University Belfast)
A. Traninger (Freie Universität Berlin)
C. Zittel (University of Stuttgart)
C. Zwierlein (Harvard University)
VOLUME 32 – 2014
The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/inte
Zoology in Early Modern Culture
Intersections of Science, Theology, Philology, and
Political and Religious Education
Edited by
Karl A.E. Enenkel and Paul J. Smith
LEIDEN | BOSTON
Cover illustration: Excerpts from the images in the chapters by Karl A.E. Enenkel and Amanda Herrin.
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Zoology in early modern culture : intersections of science, theology, philology, and political and religious
education / edited by Karl A.E. Enenkel and Paul J. Smith.
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 Includes bibliographical references and index.
 ISBN 978-90-04-26823-4 (hardback : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-90-04-27917-9 (e-book) 1. Zoology—History.
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Contents
Acknowledgements  ix
List of Illustrations  x
Notes on the Editors  xx
Notes on the Contributors  xxii
Introduction. Intersections of Science, Theology, Philology, and Political
and Religious Education  1
Karl A.E. Enenkel
Intersections of Zoology, Religion and Politics in Antiquity
1 Die antike Vorgeschichte der Verankerung der Naturgeschichte in Politik
und Religion: Plinius’ Zoologie und der römische Imperialismus
With an English Summary  15
Karl A.E. Enenkel
The Order of Nature: Early Modern Views on Classification and
Generation, and Their Theological, Ideological and Empirical
Background
2 The Species and Beyond: Classification and the Place of Hybrids in Early
Modern Zoology  57
Karl A.E. Enenkel
3 Identification of Herring Species (Clupeidae) in Conrad Gessner’s
Ichthyological Works: A Case Study on Taxonomy, Nomenclature, and
Animal Depiction in the Sixteenth Century  149
Sophia Hendrikx
4 Der Wal als Schauobjekt: Thomas Bartholin (1616–1680), die dänische
Nation und das Ende der Einhörner
With an English Summary  172
Bernd Roling
5 Snakes, Fungi and Insects. Otto Marseus van Schrieck, Johannes
Swammerdam and the Theory of Spontaneous Generation  197
Eric Jorink
vi contents
6 Insects in John Ray’s Natural History and Natural Theology  235
Brian W. Ogilvie
7 Exkurs ins Pflanzenreich: Die Rose des Paracelsus. Die Idee der
Palingenesie und die Debatte um die natürliche Auferstehung zwischen
Mittelalter und Neuzeit
With an English Summary  263
Bernd Roling
Images of Genesis: Intersections of the Visual Arts, Science, and
Religion
8 Rereading Dürer’s Representations of the Fall of Man  301
Paul J. Smith
9 Pioneers of the Printed Paradise: Maarten de Vos, Jan Sadeler I and
Emblematic Natural History in the Late Sixteenth Century  329
Amanda K. Herrin
10 Exotic Animal Painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Roelant
Savery  401
Marrigje Rikken
Symbolic Use of Animals and Political Education
11 Are Cranes Republicans? A Short Chapter in Political
Ornithology  437
Sabine Kalff
12 Tierallegorie als ein Mittel der Fürstenerziehung. Die Theriobulia des
böhmischen Humanisten Johannes Dubravius
With an English Summary  460
Alexander Loose
contents vii
Physiology and Political Ideology
13 From Physiology to Political Ideology: The Images of Man in Early
Modern Scotland  485
Tamás Demeter
Index Nominum  509
Index Animalium—Index of Animals  516

Acknowledgements
The majority of the contributions published in the present volume were
selected from papers delivered at the conference Natural History and the Arts
from the Perspective of Religion and Politics, 15th–18th Centuries, held at the
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster in May 2012, and they appear now
in much revised and extended forms. The conference Natural History and the
Arts was organized by the Seminar für Lateinische Philologie des Mittelalters
und der Neuzeit, directed by Karl Enenkel, in collaboration with the research
project Cultural Representations of Living Nature: Dynamics of Intermedial
Recording in Text and Image (ca. 1550–1670) of Leiden University, directed by
Paul Smith and funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
(NWO). The contribution “The Species and Beyond [. . .]” was written as part of
Enenkel’s research programme The New Management of Knowledge in the Early
Modern Period, funded by the NWO. The above-mentioned conference would
not have been possible without generous grants from the Westfälische
Wilhelms-Universität, the Seminar für Lateinische Philologie des Mittelalters
und der Neuzeit, and the Cluster of Excellence “Religion und Politik”. For assis-
tance with the organisation of the conference we are grateful to Christian
Peters.