Fishers' Craft and Lettered Art: Tracts on Fishing from the End of the Middle Ages

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802078532
• ISBN13: 9780802078537
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher