School of Humanities | Sgoil nan Daonnachdan

Dr Sarah Cockram

  • Lecturer in Medieval History (History)

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

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Number of items: 28.

2026

Beuzelin, Cécile, Cockram, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 and Femelat, Armelle eds. (2026) Animal et portrait à la Renaissance. Brepols: Turnhout. (In Press)

Cockram, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (2026) Big cat/big man: lion and leopard as companion animals in Renaissance portraits. In: Beuzelin, Cécile, Cockram, Sarah and Femelat, Armelle (eds.) Animal et portrait à la Renaissance. Brepols: Turnhout. (In Press)

Cockram, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (2026) Federico II Gonzaga e gli animali di Palazzo Te. In: Rebecchini, Guido and Furlotti, Barbara (eds.) Immaginare la natura: Da Leonardo agli automi. Marsilio: Venice. (In Press)

Cockram, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (2026) The lives of Sub-Saharan animals in the Medici collections. In: Assonitis, Alessio and Lowe, Kate (eds.) The Medici and the Perception of Sub-Saharan Africa. Brepols: Turnhout. (In Press)

2024

Cockram, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (2024) I legami emotivi con gli animali da compagnia nella Mantova rinascimentale. In: Coletti, Chiara, Capitanucci, Paolo, Petrillo, Stefania and Serra, Alessandro (eds.) ‘Cum tucte le tue creature’: La natura e i suoi regni tra idea e rappresentazione (secoli XVI-XX). Guidi: Naples, pp. 139-163. ISBN 9791255631149

2023

Bowd, Stephen, Cockram, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 and Gagné, John (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, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Sarah D.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Sarah D.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 and Wells, Andrew (Eds.) (2018) Interspecies Interactions: Animals and Humans between the Middle Ages and Modernity. Routledge (Taylor and Francis). ISBN 9781138189713

Cockram, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 and Wells, Andrew (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, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Stephen and Cockram, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (2017) Introduction: The animal in Renaissance Italy. Renaissance Studies, 31(2), pp. 183-200. (doi: 10.1111/rest.12299)

Cockram, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 and Bowd, Stephen (2017) The animal in Renaissance Italy [Issue editor]. Renaissance Studies, 31(2),

2013

Cockram, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Sarah D.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Sarah D.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (2008) Trevor Dean. Crime and Justice in Late Medieval Italy. Forum Italicum, 42(2), pp. 424-425. (doi: 10.1177/001458580804200215)[Book Review]

Cockram, Sarah D.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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]

This list was generated on Thu May 21 00:04:15 2026 BST.
Jump to: Articles | Books | Book Sections | Book Reviews | Edited Books
Number of items: 28.

Articles

Bowd, Stephen and Cockram, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (2017) Introduction: The animal in Renaissance Italy. Renaissance Studies, 31(2), pp. 183-200. (doi: 10.1111/rest.12299)

Cockram, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 and Bowd, Stephen (2017) The animal in Renaissance Italy [Issue editor]. Renaissance Studies, 31(2),

Cockram, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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

Beuzelin, Cécile, Cockram, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 and Femelat, Armelle eds. (2026) Animal et portrait à la Renaissance. Brepols: Turnhout. (In Press)

Cockram, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (2026) Big cat/big man: lion and leopard as companion animals in Renaissance portraits. In: Beuzelin, Cécile, Cockram, Sarah and Femelat, Armelle (eds.) Animal et portrait à la Renaissance. Brepols: Turnhout. (In Press)

Cockram, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (2026) Federico II Gonzaga e gli animali di Palazzo Te. In: Rebecchini, Guido and Furlotti, Barbara (eds.) Immaginare la natura: Da Leonardo agli automi. Marsilio: Venice. (In Press)

Cockram, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (2026) The lives of Sub-Saharan animals in the Medici collections. In: Assonitis, Alessio and Lowe, Kate (eds.) The Medici and the Perception of Sub-Saharan Africa. Brepols: Turnhout. (In Press)

Cockram, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (2024) I legami emotivi con gli animali da compagnia nella Mantova rinascimentale. In: Coletti, Chiara, Capitanucci, Paolo, Petrillo, Stefania and Serra, Alessandro (eds.) ‘Cum tucte le tue creature’: La natura e i suoi regni tra idea e rappresentazione (secoli XVI-XX). Guidi: Naples, pp. 139-163. ISBN 9791255631149

Cockram, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Sarah D.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 and Wells, Andrew (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, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Sarah D.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Sarah D.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Sarah D.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (2008) Trevor Dean. Crime and Justice in Late Medieval Italy. Forum Italicum, 42(2), pp. 424-425. (doi: 10.1177/001458580804200215)[Book Review]

Cockram, Sarah D.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 (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, Stephen, Cockram, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 and Gagné, John (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, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-7436 and Wells, Andrew (Eds.) (2018) Interspecies Interactions: Animals and Humans between the Middle Ages and Modernity. Routledge (Taylor and Francis). ISBN 9781138189713

This list was generated on Thu May 21 00:04:15 2026 BST.

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


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