Bestial oblivion: war, humanism, and ecology in Early Modern England

Introduction

Erasmus and the dung beetle; or, human exceptionalism and its discontents

Machiavelli, Virtù, and the ecology of war

Iron men : Thomas Digges, A Larum for London, and the Elizabethan cyborg

War and resilience : Tamburlaine the Great and the Anglo-Spanish War

Bestial oblivion in Shakespeare's Hamlet

Thomas Coryate, the lousy humanist

Humanity under siege : Francis Bacon's human empire and the Capitalocene.