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Translations of the three oldest European tracts on fishing, with an analysis from social, cultural and environmental perspectives.
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Richard Hoffmann is Professor at York University in Toronto, Ontario, and has a long-standing interest in fishery and the history of fishing. His previous book, Land, Liberties and Lordship in a Late Medieval Countryside (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989) won the Herbert Baxter Adams prize of the American Historical Association, and honourable mention for the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize of the Canadian Historical Association.
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'Appeals to diverse readers' interests. There is no question that the author accomplishes his goal to present critical editions of various fishers' tracts from the Late Middle Ages to the Renaissance. His translations also prove to be of first rate, and so his in-depth investigation of fishing as a craft during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age. At the same time Hoffmann never forgets that also lay people, especially fishing enthusiasts, might read his book, hence never relents in his efforts to describe his subject matter in a very clear, easily readable fashion understandable both for the expert and the lay person.'
'Neither scholars nor literate anglers should miss this milestone work. It opens a bright window on the early culture, context, and practice of fishing, and stands as an eloquent challenge to other researchers to expand the long-neglected study of this important part of European life.'
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Fishers' Craft and Lettered Art : Tracts on Fishing from the End of the Middle Ages (Vol. 12) (Medieval Texts and Translations Ser., Vol. 12)
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University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1997
ISBN 10: 0802008690
ISBN 13: 9780802008695
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Seller: Fireside Angler, Smithtown, NY, U.S.A.
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Cloth. Condition: New. First Edition, First Printing. 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." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 090013
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Fishers' Craft and Lettered Art : Tracts on Fishing from the End of the Middle Ages (Vol. 12) (Medieval Texts and Translations Ser., Vol. 12)
Published by
University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1997
ISBN 10: 0802008690
ISBN 13: 9780802008695
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Hardcover
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Seller: Fireside Angler, Smithtown, NY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Cloth. Condition: As New. First Edition, First Printing. 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." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 090014
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FISHERS' CRAFT AND LETTERED ART: TRACTS ON FISHING FROM THE END OF THE MIDDLE AGES. By Richard C. Hoffmann.
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University of Toronto Press. Canada. 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0802008690
ISBN 13: 9780802008695
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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 1997). 1997 1st edition. Hardcover issue. 8vo (155 x 235mm). Ppxv,404. B/w illustrations, bibliography. Brown decorative cloth, printed in black. Slight spotting to edges else fine unread copy. Hoffmann makes available early European angling texts which pre-date any of the previously known, largely English, works. "How To Catch Fish", Heidelberg, 1493; "Tegernsee Fishing Advice", ca 1500; Basurto's "Dialogo", 1539. Plenty of good recipes for boilies here. PREVIOUS PRICE GBP 45.00. Seller Inventory # 8383
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