Fishers' Craft and Lettered Art: Tracts on Fishing from the End of the Middle Ages (Heritage)

'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. Includes original texts and English translations of 'Wie man fisch und vögel fahen soll' (1493), 'Tegernseer Angel- und Fischbüchlein', 'Dialogo que agora se hazia...'. 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 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

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.

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. Includes Original Texts And English Translations Of Wie Man Fisch Und Vogel Fahen Soll, Tegernseer Angel- Und Fischbüchlein, Dialogo Que Agora Se Hazia---can. Cip. Richard C. Hoffmann. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Includes Original Texts And English Translations Of Wie Man Fisch Und Vögel Fahen Soll, Tegernseer Angel- Und Fischbüchlein, And Dialogo Que Agora Se Hazia ...