LEADER 03678nam 2200541 450 001 9910466581303321 005 20211103210940.0 010 $a1-5017-1510-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501715105 035 $a(CKB)4100000007002629 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5541117 035 $a(OCoLC)1008759278 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse67654 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001988494 035 $a(DE-B1597)503465 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501715105 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5541117 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007002629 100 $a20181023d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aQuick cattle and dying wishes $epeople and their animals in early modern England /$fErica Fudge 210 1$aIthaca :$cCornell University Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (260 pages) 225 1 $aCornell scholarship online 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2018. 311 $a1-5017-1509-7 311 $a1-5017-1507-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface: Looking for Animals in Early Modern England: A Note on the Evidence --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Goldelocks and the Three Bequests --$t1. Counting Chickens in Early Modern Essex: Writing Animals into Early Modern Wills --$t2. The Fuller Will and the Agricultural Worlds of People and Animals --$t3. Named Partners and Other Rugs: Animals as Co-Workers in Early Modern England --$t4. Other Worldly Matter: The Immaterial Value of Quick Cattle --$t5. Less than Kind: The Transient Animals of Early Modern London --$tAfterword: Bovine Nostalgia --$tBibliography of Primary Sources --$tIndex 330 $aWhat was the life of a cow in early modern England like? What would it be like to milk that same cow, day-in, day-out, for over a decade? How did people feel about and toward the animals that they worked with, tended, and often killed? With these questions, Erica Fudge begins her investigation into a lost aspect of early modern life: the importance of the day-to-day relationships between humans and the animals with whom they worked. Such animals are and always have been, Fudge reminds us, more than simply stock; they are sentient beings with whom one must negotiate. It is the nature, meaning, and value of these negotiations that this study attempts to recover.By focusing on interactions between people and their livestock, Quick Cattle and Dying Wishes restores animals to the central place they once had in the domestic worlds of early modern England. In addition, the book uses human relationships with animals-as revealed through agricultural manuals, literary sources, and a unique dataset of over four thousand wills-to rethink what quick cattle meant to a predominantly rural population and how relationships with them changed as more and more people moved to the city. Offering a fuller understanding of both human and animal life in this period, Fudge innovatively expands the scope of early modern studies and how we think about the role that animals played in past cultures more broadly. 410 0$aCornell scholarship online. 606 $aHuman-animal relationships$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHuman-animal relationships$xHistory 676 $a591.942 700 $aFudge$b Erica$0875862 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910466581303321 996 $aQuick cattle and dying wishes$92440727 997 $aUNINA