Quick Cattle and Dying Wishes: People and Their Animals in Early Modern England

by Erica Fudge

Book Overview

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 a lost aspect of early modern life: the importance of the day-to-day relationships between humans and the animals with whom they worked. Such animals...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501715070
• ISBN13: 9781501715075
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher