Author Name: Hoffmann, Richard C.
Title: Fishers' Craft and Lettered Art : Tracts on Fishing from the End of the Middle Ages (Vol. 12) (Medieval Texts and Translations Ser., Vol. 12)
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Publisher: Toronto University of Toronto Press 1997
ISBN Number: 0802008690 / 9780802008695
Seller ID: 090014
404 pp. "Fishers' Craft and Lettered Art provides editions, English translations, and analysis from social, cultural, and environmental perspectives of the three oldest European extended tracts on fishing. Richard Hoffmann discusses the history of fishing in popular culture and outlines the economic and ecologic considerations needed to examine and understand the fishing manuals. Hoffmann further explores how continental fishing traditions were conveyed from oral craft practice into printed culture, and proposes that these manuals demonstrate a lively and complex interaction between written texts and popular culture. The tracts are presented in their original languages - Spanish and German - with facing page translations. Close attention is paid to original setting, functions, and possible range of readings, with detailed explanatory notes to help modern fishers and historians."
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