caa a22 4500 386398224 CHVBK 20180307112146.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198907 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S000708740002598X doi S000708740002598X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S000708740002598X Oster Malcolm R. St. Cross College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3LZ. The ‘Beame of Diuinity': Animal suffering in the Early Thought of Robert Boyle [Elektronische Daten] [Malcolm R. Oster] It has long been recognized that unnecessary cruelty to animals was held to be morally wrong by many classical moralists and medieval scholastics, and was echoed repeatedly in the early-modern period, though not necessarily reflecting any particular concern for animals, but rather to indicate the supposed brutalizing effects on the human character. The prevalence of the more radical view that cruelty to animals was wrong regardless of human consequences has only been dealt with comparatively recently, in the pioneering work of Keith Thomas with regard to early-modern England. Thomas suggested that a remarkably constant and coherent argument underpinned the bulk of pamphleteering and preaching against animal cruelty in the period; man was entitled to domesticate animals and kill them for food and clothing but not to cause them unnecessary suffering. While wild animals could be killed for food or in self-defence, and game and vermin could be hunted, it was deemed wrong to kill only for pleasure. While this position could be found among Protestants of many different persuasions, the particular focus of successive campaigners changed over time. Preceding the Civil War the attack was concentrated on cock-fighting, bear-baiting and the ill-treatment of domestic animals; in the later seventeenth century it broadened out to include the caging of wild birds, brutal methods of slaughter, hare-hunting and vivisection. Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1989 The British Journal for the History of Science Cambridge University Press 22/2(1989-07), 151-180 0007-0874 22:2<151 1989 22 BJH https://doi.org/10.1017/S000708740002598X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S000708740002598X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Oster Malcolm R. St. Cross College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3LZ NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The British Journal for the History of Science Cambridge University Press 22/2(1989-07), 151-180 0007-0874 22:2<151 1989 22 BJH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge