Fishers' Craft and Lettered Art: Tracts on Fishing from the End of the Middle Ages (Toronto Medieval Texts and Translations, 12, Band 12) - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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.

RICHARD HOFFMANN, a professor of history at York University in Toronto, has a long-standing interest in fishery and the history of fishing.

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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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'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.'