Introduction: Goldelocks and the three bequests -- Counting chickens in early modern Essex : writing animals into early modern will -- The Fuller will and the agricultural worlds of people and animals -- Named partners and other rugs : animals as co-workers in early modern England -- Other-worldly matter : the immaterial value of animals -- Less than kind : the transient animals of early modern London -- Afterword : bovine nostalgia
Summary
"An examination of what it was like to live and work with animals in early modern England"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis
living and working with animals, early modern life, negotiated interaction with livestock, impact of urbanization on human-animal relations, immaterial meaning of the natural world
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 23, 2018)
