Dr Sarah Cockram
- Lecturer in Medieval History (History)
telephone:
0141 330 8044
email:
Sarah.Cockram@glasgow.ac.uk
Research interests
Research interests
- Late medieval and early modern history
- Renaissance studies
- Historical animal studies
- Gender history
- History of emotions and senses
- History of medicine and veterinary medicine
Research groups
Publications
2023
Bowd, S., Cockram, S. and Gagné, J. (Eds.) (2023) Shadow Agents of Renaissance War: Suffering, Supporting, and Supplying Conflict in Italy and Beyond. Series: Renaissance history, art and culture. Amsterdam University Press: Amsterdam. ISBN 9789463721356
Cockram, S. (2023) “A horse is a feeling animal”: interspecies interaction and animal agency in Renaissance warfare. In: Bowd, Stephen, Cockram, Sarah and Gagné, John (eds.) Shadow Agents of Renaissance War: Suffering, Supporting, and Supplying Conflict in Italy and Beyond. Series: Renaissance history, art and culture. Amsterdam University Press: Amsterdam, pp. 95-119. ISBN 9789463721356
2022
Cockram, S. D.P. (2022) A Renaissance Marriage: The Personal and Political Alliance of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490–1519. Carolyn James. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 204 pp. £60.00. ISBN 978-0-1996-8121-1. Early Modern Women, 16(2), pp. 313-316. (doi: 10.1086/717604)[Book Review]
Cockram, S. (2022) Animals and Courts: Europe, c. 1200–1800. Mark Hengerer and Nadir Weber, eds. Oldenbourg: De Gruyter, 2020. viii + 434 pp. $103.99. Renaissance Quarterly, 75(1), pp. 265-266. (doi: 10.1017/rqx.2022.38)[Book Review]
2021
Cockram, S. D.P. (2021) History of emotions. In: Roscher, Mieke, Krebber, André and Mizelle, Brett (eds.) Handbook of Historical Animal Studies. DeGruyter Oldenbourg: Berlin, pp. 409-422. ISBN 9783110534290 (doi: 10.1515/9783110536553-031)
2019
Cockram, S. (2019) Isabella d’Este’s sartorial politics. In: Griffey, Erin (ed.) Sartorial Politics in Early Modern Europe: Fashioning Women. Series: Visual and material culture, 1300-1700. Amsterdam University Press: Amsterdam, pp. 33-56. ISBN 9789462986008 (doi: 10.2307/j.ctv10kmg51.5)
2018
Cockram, S. and Wells, A. (Eds.) (2018) Interspecies Interactions: Animals and Humans between the Middle Ages and Modernity. Routledge (Taylor and Francis). ISBN 9781138189713
Cockram, S. and Wells, A. (2018) Introduction: action, reaction, interaction in historical animal studies. In: Cockram, Sarah and Wells, Andrew (eds.) Interspecies Interactions: Animals and Humans between the Middle Ages and Modernity. Routledge (Taylor and Francis). ISBN 9781138189713
2017
Cockram, S. (2017) Review of Valeria Finucci The Prince’s Body: Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine (I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history), (Harvard University Press, 2015). Journal of Modern History, 89(3), pp. 709-711. (doi: 10.1086/692882)[Book Review]
Cockram, S. (2017) Sleeve cat and lap dog: affection, aesthetics and proximity to companion animals in Renaissance Mantua. In: Cockram, Sarah and Wells, Andrew (eds.) Interspecies Interactions: Animals and Humans Between the Middle Ages and Modernity. Routledge: London, pp. 34-65. ISBN 9781138189713
Bowd, S. and Cockram, S. (2017) Introduction: The animal in Renaissance Italy. Renaissance Studies, 31(2), pp. 183-200. (doi: 10.1111/rest.12299)
Cockram, S. (2017) Interspecies understanding: exotic animals and their handlers at the Italian renaissance court. Renaissance Studies, 31(2), pp. 277-298. (doi: 10.1111/rest.12292)
Cockram, S. and Bowd, S. (2017) The animal in Renaissance Italy [Issue editor]. Renaissance Studies, 31(2),
2013
Cockram, S. (2013) The actor-author in Castiglione’s Cortegiano: “lo esser travestito porta seco una certa libertà e licenzia”. In: Fischer, Donatella (ed.) The Tradition of the Actor-Author in Italian Theatre. Series: Italian perspectives (27). Legenda: London. ISBN 9781907975806
Cockram, S. (2013) Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga: Power Sharing at the Italian Renaissance Court. Series: Women and gender in the early modern world. Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey. ISBN 9781409448310
Cockram, S. D.P. (2013) Francis Ames-Lewis. Isabella and Leonardo: The Relationship between Isabella d’Este and Leonardo da Vinci. Renaissance Quarterly, 66(2), pp. 606-607. (doi: 10.1086/671603)[Book Review]
2011
Cockram, S. (2011) Beasts and Beauties: Animals, Gender, and Domestication in the Italian Renaissance. By Juliana Schiesari. Italian Studies, 66(3), pp. 459-460. (doi: 10.1179/007516311X13137441768696)[Book Review]
2010
Cockram, S. (2010) Marriage, Manners and Mobility in Early Modern Venice by Alexander Cowan. Renaissance Studies, 24(4), pp. 611-612. (doi: 10.1111/j.1477-4658.2010.00650.x)[Book Review]
2009
Cockram, S. (2009) Alessandra Villa, Istruire e rappresentare Isabella d’Este: il ‘Libro de natura de amore’ di Mario Equicola. Italian Studies, 64(2), pp. 318-319. (doi: 10.1179/007516309X12523346148343)[Book Review]
Cockram, S. (2009) Epistolary masks: Self-presentation and dissimulation in the letters of Isabella d’Este. Italian Studies, 64(1), pp. 20-37. (doi: 10.1179/174861809X405773)
2008
Cockram, S. D.P. (2008) Trevor Dean. Crime and Justice in Late Medieval Italy. Forum Italicum, 42(2), pp. 424-425. (doi: 10.1177/001458580804200215)[Book Review]
Cockram, S. D.P. (2008) Ruling Peacefully: Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga and Patrician Reform in Sixteenth-Century Italy by Paul V. Murphy. Sixteenth Century Journal, 39(4), pp. 1251-1252. (doi: 10.2307/20479232)[Book Review]
2006
Cockram, S. (2006) Kelley Harness. Echoes of Women’s Voices. Music, Art, and Female Patronage in Early Modern Florence. Annali d’Italianistica, 24, pp. 406-408. [Book Review]
Articles
Bowd, S. and Cockram, S. (2017) Introduction: The animal in Renaissance Italy. Renaissance Studies, 31(2), pp. 183-200. (doi: 10.1111/rest.12299)
Cockram, S. (2017) Interspecies understanding: exotic animals and their handlers at the Italian renaissance court. Renaissance Studies, 31(2), pp. 277-298. (doi: 10.1111/rest.12292)
Cockram, S. and Bowd, S. (2017) The animal in Renaissance Italy [Issue editor]. Renaissance Studies, 31(2),
Cockram, S. (2009) Epistolary masks: Self-presentation and dissimulation in the letters of Isabella d’Este. Italian Studies, 64(1), pp. 20-37. (doi: 10.1179/174861809X405773)
Books
Cockram, S. (2013) Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga: Power Sharing at the Italian Renaissance Court. Series: Women and gender in the early modern world. Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey. ISBN 9781409448310
Book Sections
Cockram, S. (2023) “A horse is a feeling animal”: interspecies interaction and animal agency in Renaissance warfare. In: Bowd, Stephen, Cockram, Sarah and Gagné, John (eds.) Shadow Agents of Renaissance War: Suffering, Supporting, and Supplying Conflict in Italy and Beyond. Series: Renaissance history, art and culture. Amsterdam University Press: Amsterdam, pp. 95-119. ISBN 9789463721356
Cockram, S. D.P. (2021) History of emotions. In: Roscher, Mieke, Krebber, André and Mizelle, Brett (eds.) Handbook of Historical Animal Studies. DeGruyter Oldenbourg: Berlin, pp. 409-422. ISBN 9783110534290 (doi: 10.1515/9783110536553-031)
Cockram, S. (2019) Isabella d’Este’s sartorial politics. In: Griffey, Erin (ed.) Sartorial Politics in Early Modern Europe: Fashioning Women. Series: Visual and material culture, 1300-1700. Amsterdam University Press: Amsterdam, pp. 33-56. ISBN 9789462986008 (doi: 10.2307/j.ctv10kmg51.5)
Cockram, S. and Wells, A. (2018) Introduction: action, reaction, interaction in historical animal studies. In: Cockram, Sarah and Wells, Andrew (eds.) Interspecies Interactions: Animals and Humans between the Middle Ages and Modernity. Routledge (Taylor and Francis). ISBN 9781138189713
Cockram, S. (2017) Sleeve cat and lap dog: affection, aesthetics and proximity to companion animals in Renaissance Mantua. In: Cockram, Sarah and Wells, Andrew (eds.) Interspecies Interactions: Animals and Humans Between the Middle Ages and Modernity. Routledge: London, pp. 34-65. ISBN 9781138189713
Cockram, S. (2013) The actor-author in Castiglione’s Cortegiano: “lo esser travestito porta seco una certa libertà e licenzia”. In: Fischer, Donatella (ed.) The Tradition of the Actor-Author in Italian Theatre. Series: Italian perspectives (27). Legenda: London. ISBN 9781907975806
Book Reviews
Cockram, S. D.P. (2022) A Renaissance Marriage: The Personal and Political Alliance of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490–1519. Carolyn James. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 204 pp. £60.00. ISBN 978-0-1996-8121-1. Early Modern Women, 16(2), pp. 313-316. (doi: 10.1086/717604)[Book Review]
Cockram, S. (2022) Animals and Courts: Europe, c. 1200–1800. Mark Hengerer and Nadir Weber, eds. Oldenbourg: De Gruyter, 2020. viii + 434 pp. $103.99. Renaissance Quarterly, 75(1), pp. 265-266. (doi: 10.1017/rqx.2022.38)[Book Review]
Cockram, S. (2017) Review of Valeria Finucci The Prince’s Body: Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine (I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history), (Harvard University Press, 2015). Journal of Modern History, 89(3), pp. 709-711. (doi: 10.1086/692882)[Book Review]
Cockram, S. D.P. (2013) Francis Ames-Lewis. Isabella and Leonardo: The Relationship between Isabella d’Este and Leonardo da Vinci. Renaissance Quarterly, 66(2), pp. 606-607. (doi: 10.1086/671603)[Book Review]
Cockram, S. (2011) Beasts and Beauties: Animals, Gender, and Domestication in the Italian Renaissance. By Juliana Schiesari. Italian Studies, 66(3), pp. 459-460. (doi: 10.1179/007516311X13137441768696)[Book Review]
Cockram, S. (2010) Marriage, Manners and Mobility in Early Modern Venice by Alexander Cowan. Renaissance Studies, 24(4), pp. 611-612. (doi: 10.1111/j.1477-4658.2010.00650.x)[Book Review]
Cockram, S. (2009) Alessandra Villa, Istruire e rappresentare Isabella d’Este: il ‘Libro de natura de amore’ di Mario Equicola. Italian Studies, 64(2), pp. 318-319. (doi: 10.1179/007516309X12523346148343)[Book Review]
Cockram, S. D.P. (2008) Trevor Dean. Crime and Justice in Late Medieval Italy. Forum Italicum, 42(2), pp. 424-425. (doi: 10.1177/001458580804200215)[Book Review]
Cockram, S. D.P. (2008) Ruling Peacefully: Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga and Patrician Reform in Sixteenth-Century Italy by Paul V. Murphy. Sixteenth Century Journal, 39(4), pp. 1251-1252. (doi: 10.2307/20479232)[Book Review]
Cockram, S. (2006) Kelley Harness. Echoes of Women’s Voices. Music, Art, and Female Patronage in Early Modern Florence. Annali d’Italianistica, 24, pp. 406-408. [Book Review]
Edited Books
Bowd, S., Cockram, S. and Gagné, J. (Eds.) (2023) Shadow Agents of Renaissance War: Suffering, Supporting, and Supplying Conflict in Italy and Beyond. Series: Renaissance history, art and culture. Amsterdam University Press: Amsterdam. ISBN 9789463721356
Cockram, S. and Wells, A. (Eds.) (2018) Interspecies Interactions: Animals and Humans between the Middle Ages and Modernity. Routledge (Taylor and Francis). ISBN 9781138189713
Teaching
Undergraduate:
History 1B: Europe Rising. The Medieval World, 500-1500
Becoming an Historian
Animals and History, c. 1300 - c. 1600
Postgraduate:
Women and Power in Renaissance Italy
