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Fishers' craft and lettered art : tracts on fishing from the end of the Middle Ages /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hoffmann, Richard C. (Richard Charles), 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©1997.
Colección:Toronto medieval texts and translations ; 12.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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 AbbeyA 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 DialogoFernando 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 fishingSimple 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