Quick Cattle and Dying Wishes: People and Their Animals in Early Modern England
Erica Fudge
Abstract
What were people's feelings about and towards the animals who worked with them in early modern England? What meaning did those animals have? These questions are the starting point for this book. Current historical analyses tell us how important animals were to the development of the economy and to the process of industrialization, but thus far little has been written recognizing the crucial fact that animals are, and always have been, more than simply stock: they are living, sentient beings with whom negotiated interaction is required. This book will take such interactions as its focus and wil ... More
Keywords: Animals, History, Early modern, Domestic, livestock
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 | Print ISBN-13: 9781501715075 |
| Published to Cornell Scholarship Online: May 2019 | DOI:10.7591/cornell/9781501715075.001.0001 |
