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

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An edition and translation of three late medieval tracts on fishing: ""How to Catch a Fish"" (Heidelberg, 1493); ""Tegernsee Fishing Advice"" (Bavaria, ca. 1500); and ""Dialogue Between a Hunter and a Fisher"" by the Aragonese Fernando Basu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hoffmann, Richard C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1997.
Edición:2nd ed.
Colección:Toronto medieval texts and translations.
Temas:
Fishing > Europe.
Fishing > Europe > Early works to 1800.
Pêche sportive > Europe.
Pêche sportive > Europe > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Fishing
Europe
Early works
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ABOUT THE CITATIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS
  • PREFACE
  • Introduction
  • The origins of angling?
  • An English version
  • Continental fragments
  • Listening for ordinary voices
  • Popular oral culture
  • Literacy in medieval Europe
  • Vernacular literacy
  • Cultural effects of print
  • Writing along cultural margins
  • Economies and ecologies
  • Eating fish
  • Regional fish communities
  • Aquatic habitats
  • Food webs
  • Notes
  • 1 The Heidelberg Booklet of 1493 and the Market for Information
  • The making of a how-to manual
  • From 1498 to 1493: The historian as detective
  • Environment and economy along the Rhine
  • Technology and culture in Köbel's booklet
  • Voices of popular experience
  • A veneer of learning
  • Magic, popular and learned
  • Empiricism
  • Curious consequences of print
  • Printers and their products
  • Uses of print: High culture
  • Uses of print: Popular culture
  • Notes
  • 2 'How to Catch Fish' [Heidelberg, 1493]
  • Introductory note
  • Text and translation
  • Notes to the translation
  • 3 A Collection of Popular Wisdom from Tegernsee Abbey
  • A scribal artefact
  • Fish dinners for monks
  • Date and connections
  • In regional popular culture
  • Peasant society and economy
  • Speaking of experience
  • A family of 'oral texts'
  • Alpine and Danubian ecologies
  • With hook and trap
  • Angling tackle and techniques
  • The feathered hook
  • Traps
  • Whose methods?
  • Notes
  • 4 'Tegernsee Fishing Advice, ' ca 1500
  • Introductory note
  • Text and translation
  • Notes to the translation
  • 5 Literary Performance and the Fisher's Sport in Basurto's Dialogo
  • Fernando Basurto's literary art
  • Service and reward
  • Shared knowledge
  • Two characters debate hunting and fishing
  • A literary dialogue
  • Characters
  • Hunting vs fishing
  • The didactic tract within
  • Local knowledge.
  • Spanish angling techniques
  • Qualities of mind
  • Notes
  • 6 Fernando Basurto 'Dialogue between a Hunter and a Fisher' Zaragoza, 1539
  • Introductory note
  • Text and translation
  • Notes to the translation
  • 7 Letters, Craft, and Mind
  • Forms and functions of early writing on fishing
  • Simple recipes, memoranda, and tracts
  • Ordered treatises, private and public
  • Written forms and social purposes
  • The fishers' craft
  • Ecologies, near and far
  • Techniques
  • Ways of thinking
  • Sources of power and knowledge
  • Information and idea
  • Reflection
  • Texts, contexts, and beyond
  • Notes
  • Epilogue: Looking Back to England
  • Notes
  • APPENDICES
  • 1. Some Fishes of European Fresh Waters
  • 2. Previous Modern Editions of and Commentaries on the Fish-Catching Tracts
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • V
  • W
  • Z.

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