Introduction: Goldelocks and the three bequests -- Counting chickens in early modern Essex : writing animals into early modern will -- The Fuller will and the agricultural worlds of people and animals -- Named partners and other rugs : animals as co-workers in early modern England -- Other-worldly matter : the immaterial value of animals -- Less than kind : the transient animals of early modern London -- Afterword : bovine nostalgia.
Summary:
"An examination of what it was like to live and work with animals in early modern England"-- Provided by publisher.
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