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Author Hoffmann, Richard C. (Richard Charles), 1943-

Title Fishers' craft and lettered art : tracts on fishing from the end of the Middle Ages / Richard C. Hoffmann.

Imprint Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ℗♭1997.

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Descript 1 online resource (xv, 403 pages) : illustrations
Series Toronto medieval texts and translations ; 12
Toronto medieval texts and translations ; 12.
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Includes original texts and English translations of Wie man Fisch und Vo⁺gel fahen soll, Tegernseer Angel- und Fischbu⁺chlein, and Dialogo que agora se hazia ...
Contents CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ABOUT THE CITATIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- PREFACE -- Introduction -- The origins of angling? -- An English version -- Continental fragments -- Listening for ordinary voices -- Popular oral culture -- Literacy in medieval Europe -- Vernacular literacy -- Cultural effects of print -- Writing along cultural margins -- Economies and ecologies -- Eating fish -- Regional fish communities -- Aquatic habitats -- Food webs -- Notes -- 1 The Heidelberg Booklet of 1493 and the Market for Information
""The making of a how-to manual""""From 1498 to 1493: The historian as detective""; ""Environment and economy along the Rhine""; ""Technology and culture in KA⁺ё℗œbel's booklet""; ""Voices of popular experience""; ""A veneer of learning""; ""Magic, popular and learned""; ""Empiricism""; ""Curious consequences of print""; ""Printers and their products""; ""Uses of print: High culture""; ""Uses of print: Popular culture""; ""Notes""; ""2 'How to Catch Fish' [Heidelberg, 1493]""; ""Introductory note""; ""Text and translation""; ""Notes to the translation""
3 A Collection of Popular Wisdom from Tegernsee AbbeyA scribal artefact -- Fish dinners for monks -- Date and connections -- In regional popular culture -- Peasant society and economy -- Speaking of experience -- A family of 'oral texts' -- Alpine and Danubian ecologies -- With hook and trap -- Angling tackle and techniques -- The feathered hook -- Traps -- Whose methods? -- Notes -- 4 'Tegernsee Fishing Advice, ' ca 1500 -- Introductory note -- Text and translation -- Notes to the translation
5 Literary Performance and the Fisher's Sport in Basurto's DialogoFernando Basurto's literary art -- Service and reward -- Shared knowledge -- Two characters debate hunting and fishing -- A literary dialogue -- Characters -- Hunting vs fishing -- The didactic tract within -- Local knowledge -- Spanish angling techniques -- Qualities of mind -- Notes -- 6 Fernando Basurto 'Dialogue between a Hunter and a Fisher' Zaragoza, 1539 -- Introductory note -- Text and translation -- Notes to the translation -- 7 Letters, Craft, and Mind
Forms and functions of early writing on fishingSimple recipes, memoranda, and tracts -- Ordered treatises, private and public -- Written forms and social purposes -- The fishers' craft -- Ecologies, near and far -- Techniques -- Ways of thinking -- Sources of power and knowledge -- Information and idea -- Reflection -- Texts, contexts, and beyond -- Notes -- Epilogue: Looking Back to England -- Notes -- APPENDICES -- 1. Some Fishes of European Fresh Waters -- 2. Previous Modern Editions of and Commentaries on the Fish-Catching Tracts -- BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Subject Fishing -- Early works to 1800.
Fishing -- Europe -- History -- 16th century -- Sources.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Fishing.
HISTORY -- Medieval.
Fishing. (OCoLC)fst00926650
Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
1500-1599
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