Fishers' Craft and Lettered Art : : Tracts on Fishing from the End of the Middle Ages / / ed. by Richard C. Hoffmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• HerausgeberIn: Hoffmann, Richard C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Medieval Texts and Translations
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; About the Citations and Abbreviations --; Preface --; Introduction --; 1. The Heidelberg Booklet of 1493 and the Market for Information --; 2. 'How to Catch Fish' --; 3. A Collection of Popular Wisdom from Tegernsee Abbey --; 4. Tegernsee Fishing Advice/ ca 1500 --; 5. Literary Performance and the Fisher's Sport in Basurto's Dialogo --; 6. Fernando Basurto 'Dialogue between a Hunter and a Fisher' Zaragoza, 1539 --; 7. Letters, Craft, and Mind --; Epilogue: Looking Back to England --; Appendix 1. Some Fishes of European Fresh Waters --; Appendix 2. Previous Modern Editions of and Commentaries on the Fish-Catching Tracts --; Bibliography --; Index --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442674929; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442674929
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Richard C. Hoffmann.

Fishers' Craft and Lettered Art provides editions, English translations, and analysis from social, cultural, and environmental perspectives of the three oldest European extended tracts on fishing. Richard Hoffmann discusses the history of fishing in popular culture and outlines the economic and ecologic considerations needed to examine and understand the fishing manuals. Hoffmann further explores how continental fishing traditions were conveyed from oral craft practice into printed culture, and proposes that these manuals demonstrate a lively and complex interaction between written texts and popular culture. The tracts are presented in their original languages - Spanish and German - with facing page translations. Close attention is paid to original setting, functions, and possible range of readings, with detailed explanatory notes to help modern fishers and historians.Fishers' Craft and Lettered Art is a fascinating look at one vital aspect of everyday life at the end of the Middle Ages.