Cockfighting in Britain from Antiquity to the Enlightenment

Cockfighting in Britain from Antiquity to the Enlightenment

Sutherland, Alexander

Springer International Publishing AG

11/2024

276

Dura

9783031749209

15 a 20 dias

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Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Cock in Antiquity: revered, venerated, deified.- Chapter 3. The Cock and the Early Church.- Chapter 4. The Cock Profaned.-Chapter 5. The Carnival Pursuits of Schoolboys.- Chapter 6. Cockfighting: 'a sport peculiar to the English'.- Chapter 7. Cockfighting: A National Pastime.-

Chapter 8. Early Writers on Cockfighting.- Chapter 9. The Rules of the Game.- Chapter 10. Sod 'n' Turf: a symbiotic relationship.- Chapter 11. A Cocker's Reckoning .- Chapter 12. 'Tyrannic Man's Dominion'.- Chapter 13. Conclusion.
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cockfighting;history of British sport;blood sports;history of animal rights;animal studies;animal ethics;sports history