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 ...
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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. Fishers' Craft and Lettered Art is a fascinating look at one vital aspect of everyday life at the end of the Middle Ages.
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Very Good. *Veteran-Owned, Family-Run, Small Book Store in the Pacific Northwest* Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 408 p. Toronto Medieval Texts & Translations, 12.
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Very Good. 0802078532. First paperback edition. Some light soiling on top edge, previous owner's name on front endpage, else very good in illustrated wraps.
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As new. University of Toronto Press, c1997. 403pp., index, bibliography, appendix, black and white illustrations and maps. 8vo. As new unread trade paperback, uncreased spine.
