Fudge, Erica,

Quick cattle and dying wishes : people and their animals in early modern England / Erica Fudge. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: Goldelocks and the three bequests -- Counting chickens in early modern Essex : writing animals into early modern will -- The Fuller will and the agricultural worlds of people and animals -- Named partners and other rugs : animals as co-workers in early modern England -- Other-worldly matter : the immaterial value of animals -- Less than kind : the transient animals of early modern London -- Afterword : bovine nostalgia.

"An examination of what it was like to live and work with animals in early modern England"--



9781501715105

2017051601


Electronic Books.

QL85 / .Q535 2018