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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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 799.1/2
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- ISBN
- 9781442674929 0802008690
- LCCN
- SH421
- LCCN Item number
- H63 1997eb
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- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xv, 403 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00600873 (OCoLC)244768841 (CaOOCEL)417732
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- CaOTU
Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 6
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 10
- ABOUT THE CITATIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS 12
- PREFACE 14
- Introduction 20
- The origins of angling? 22
- An English version 22
- Continental fragments 25
- Listening for ordinary voices 27
- Popular oral culture 27
- Literacy in medieval Europe 28
- Vernacular literacy 30
- Cultural effects of print 31
- Writing along cultural margins 33
- Economies and ecologies 35
- Eating fish 35
- Regional fish communities 36
- Aquatic habitats 38
- Food webs 39
- Notes 42
- 1 The Heidelberg Booklet of 1493 and the Market for Information 48
- The making of a how-to manual 48
- From 1498 to 1493: The historian as detective 49
- Environment and economy along the Rhine 57
- Technology and culture in Köbel's booklet 60
- Voices of popular experience 60
- A veneer of learning 63
- Magic, popular and learned 64
- Empiricism 64
- Curious consequences of print 66
- Printers and their products 66
- Uses of print: High culture 73
- Uses of print: Popular culture 74
- Notes 77
- 2 'How to Catch Fish' [Heidelberg, 1493] 90
- Introductory note 92
- Text and translation 93
- Notes to the translation 115
- 3 A Collection of Popular Wisdom from Tegernsee Abbey 128
- A scribal artefact 129
- Fish dinners for monks 133
- Date and connections 134
- In regional popular culture 135
- Peasant society and economy 135
- Speaking of experience 137
- A family of 'oral texts' 139
- Alpine and Danubian ecologies 140
- With hook and trap 142
- Angling tackle and techniques 142
- The feathered hook 143
- Traps 145
- Whose methods? 146
- Notes 147
- 4 'Tegernsee Fishing Advice,' ca 1500 154
- Introductory note 156
- Text and translation 157
- Notes to the translation 197
- 5 Literary Performance and the Fisher's Sport in Basurto's Dialogo 208
- Fernando Basurto's literary art 212
- Service and reward 212
- Shared knowledge 213
- Two characters debate hunting and fishing 216
- A literary dialogue 216
- Characters 218
- Hunting vs fishing 219
- The didactic tract within 221
- Local knowledge 222
- Spanish angling techniques 223
- Qualities of mind 224
- Notes 226
- 6 Fernando Basurto 'Dialogue between a Hunter and a Fisher' Zaragoza, 1539 232
- Introductory note 234
- Text and translation 235
- Notes to the translation 323
- 7 Letters, Craft, and Mind 337
- Forms and functions of early writing on fishing 338
- Simple recipes, memoranda, and tracts 339
- Ordered treatises, private and public 342
- Written forms and social purposes 344
- The fishers' craft 345
- Ecologies, near and far 345
- Techniques 348
- Ways of thinking 350
- Sources of power and knowledge 350
- Information and idea 352
- Reflection 353
- Texts, contexts, and beyond 354
- Notes 356
- Epilogue: Looking Back to England 362
- Notes 368
- APPENDICES 372
- 1. Some Fishes of European Fresh Waters 372
- 2. Previous Modern Editions of and Commentaries on the Fish-Catching Tracts 376
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 380
- INDEX 410
- A 410
- B 410
- C 411
- D 412
- E 412
- F 413
- G 414
- H 414
- I 415
- J 415
- K 415
- L 415
- M 416
- N 417
- O 417
- P 417
- Q 418
- R 418
- S 418
- T 419
- V 420
- W 420
- Z 420
