Quick Cattle and Dying Wishes – People and Their Animals in Early Modern Englan…

Quick Cattle and Dying WishesPeople and Their Animals in Early Modern England\nAuthor(s): Erica Fudge\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9781501715075, 978-1501715075\nSynopsis\nWhat was the life of a cow in early modern England like? What would it be like to milk that same cow, day-in, day-out, for over a decade? How did people feel about and toward the animals that they worked with, tended, and often killed? With these questions, Erica Fudge begins her investigation into a lost aspect of early modern life: the importance of the day-to-day relationships between humans and the animals with whom they worked. Such animals are and always have been, Fudge reminds us, more than simply stock; they are sentient beings with whom one must negotiate. It is the nature, meaning, and value of these negotiations that this study attempts to recover.\n\n By focusing on interactions between people and their livestock, Qui.