Fishers' Craft and Lettered Art : Tracts on Fishing from the End of the Middle Ages.
An edition and translation of three late medieval tracts on fishing: "How to Catch a Fish" (Heidelberg, 1493); "Tegernsee Fishing Advice" (Bavaria, ca. 1500); and "Dialogue Between a Hunter and a Fisher" by the Aragonese Fernando Basurto (1539).
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| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Imprint: | Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1997. |
| Series: | Toronto Medieval Texts and Translations
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| Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Intro -- 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 Köbel'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 Abbey -- A 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 Dialogo -- Fernando 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. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 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 fishing -- Simple 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 -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z. | |
| 520 | |a An edition and translation of three late medieval tracts on fishing: "How to Catch a Fish" (Heidelberg, 1493); "Tegernsee Fishing Advice" (Bavaria, ca. 1500); and "Dialogue Between a Hunter and a Fisher" by the Aragonese Fernando Basurto (1539). | ||
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