Frontmatter
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction Concepts
1 Sting Stinging like a Bee in Early Modern England
2 Scale Lesser Living in the Renaissance
3 Pest Environmental Justice and the (Early Modern) Rhetoric of Pest Control
4 Infestation Out of Africa: Locust Infestation, Universal History, and the Early Modern Th eological Imaginary
5 Habitat and Politics "Regardles of his gouernaunce": Exploring Human Sovereignty and Political Formation in Early Modern Insect Habitats
6 Consume Consuming Insects
7 Decompose Worm Work
8 Locomotion Creeping and Crawling
9 Communication Tettix
10 Swarm Song of the Swarm
11 Illumination "Living Lamps"
Epilogue Concepts
List of Contributors
Index