Quick Cattle and Dying Wishes : : People and Their Animals in Early Modern England / / Erica Fudge.
What was the life of a cow in early modern England like? What would it be like to milk that same cow, day-in, day-out, for over a decade? How did people feel about and toward the animals that they worked with, tended, and often killed? With these questions, Erica Fudge begins her investigation into...
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| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface: Looking for Animals in Early Modern England: A Note on the Evidence
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Goldelocks and the Three Bequests
- 1. Counting Chickens in Early Modern Essex: Writing Animals into Early Modern Wills
- 2. The Fuller Will and the Agricultural Worlds of People and Animals
- 3. Named Partners and Other Rugs: Animals as Co-Workers in Early Modern England
- 4. Other Worldly Matter: The Immaterial Value of Quick Cattle
- 5. Less than Kind: The Transient Animals of Early Modern London
- Afterword: Bovine Nostalgia
- Bibliography of Primary Sources
- Index