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In the sixteenth century, the influential Neapolitan riding academy developed the precursor of dressage, and a groundbreaking treatise on equine anatomy was published in Venice in 1598. But vigorous Iberian equine traditions tempered Italian influence in Spain, where elites exercised a distinctive style of riding, and Spanish equine doctors published their own genre of medical treatises. In this lecture, Ms. Martin will examine how Spaniards in this context responded to Italian developments. RSVP here.
Janice Gunther Martin is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Notre Dame, where she researches how humans engage and define the natural world and their place within it, with a particular focus on science and medicine during the early modern period. |
