{"product_id":"quick-cattle-and-dying-wishes-people-and-their-animals-in-early-modern-england-hardback-9781501715075","title":"Quick Cattle and Dying Wishes; People and Their Animals in Early Modern England (Hardback) 9781501715075","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eQuick Cattle and Dying Wishes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePeople and Their Animals in Early Modern England\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eErica Fudge (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501715075\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 September 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eClear-sighted yet moving.\u003c\/p\u003e (Times Higher Education) \u003cp\u003eFudge digs into historical ethos, illuminating the relationships that the people of England retained with their livestock.\u003c\/p\u003e (ACRES) \u003cp\u003eFudge's book offers much material not just to (cultural) historians and animal studies scholars, but to philosophers, too: it provides readers with a fascinating glimpse into early modern farm life, but it can also help to frame theoretical questions about the ethics of the human use of animals.\u003c\/p\u003e (Journal of British Studies) \u003cp\u003eA masterful demonstration of interdisciplinary scholarship.... Fudge's work marks a major contribution to thinking about animal agency.... It is a book that offers new insights on almost every page, while apparent digressions lead the reader back to the central argument in surprising ways. It is a pleasure to read and will further establish Fudge as the foremost scholar of early modern animal studies.\u003c\/p\u003e (AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat was the life of a cow in early modern England like?\u003c\/b\u003e 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 are and always have been, Fudge reminds us, more than simply stock; they are sentient beings with whom one must negotiate. It is the nature, meaning, and value of these negotiations that this study attempts to recover.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy focusing on interactions between people and their livestock, \u003ci\u003eQuick Cattle and Dying Wishes\u003c\/i\u003e restores animals to the central place they once had in the domestic worlds of early modern England. In addition, the book uses human relationships with animals—as revealed through agricultural manuals, literary sources, and a unique dataset of over four thousand wills—to rethink what quick cattle meant to a predominantly rural population and how relationships with them changed as more and more people moved to the city. Offering a fuller understanding of both human and animal life in this period, Fudge innovatively expands the scope of early modern studies and how we think about the role that animals played in past cultures more broadly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eLooking for Animals in Early Modern England: A Note on the Evidence\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Goldelocks and the Three Bequests\u003cbr\u003e 1. Counting Chickens in Early Modern Essex: Writing Animals into Early Modern Wills\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Fuller Will and the Agricultural Worlds of People and Animals\u003cbr\u003e 3. Named Partners and Other Rugs: Animals as Co-Workers in Early Modern England\u003cbr\u003e 4. Other Worldly Matter: The Immaterial Value of Quick Cattle\u003cbr\u003e 5. Less than Kind: The Transient Animals of Early Modern London\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: Bovine Nostalgia\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography of Primary Sources\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607770067224,"sku":"9781501715075","price":85.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/quick-cattle-and-dying-wishes-people-and-their-animals-in-early-modern-england-hardback-9781501715075","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}