Table of Contents

Preface: Looking for Animals in Early Modern England: A Note on the Evidence
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Goldelocks and the Three Bequests
1. Counting Chickens in Early Modern Essex: Writing Animals into Early Modern Wills
2. The Fuller Will and the Agricultural Worlds of People and Animals
3. Named Partners and Other Rugs: Animals as Co-Workers in Early Modern England
4. Other Worldly Matter: The Immaterial Value of Quick Cattle
5. Less than Kind: The Transient Animals of Early Modern London
Afterword: Bovine Nostalgia
Bibliography of Primary Sources
Index

About the Author

Erica Fudge is Professor of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde and Director of the British Animal Studies Network. She is the author of Brutal Reasoning and Perceiving Animals and editor of Renaissance Beasts.

Reviews

Clear-sighted yet moving.
*Times Higher Education*

Fudge digs into historical ethos, illuminating the relationships that the people of England retained with their livestock.
*ACRES*

Fudge's book offers much material not just to (cultural) historians and animal studies scholars, but to philosophers, too: it provides readers with a fascinating glimpse into early modern farm life, but it can also help to frame theoretical questions about the ethics of the human use of animals.
*Journal of British Studies*

A masterful demonstration of interdisciplinary scholarship.... Fudge's work marks a major contribution to thinking about animal agency.... It is a book that offers new insights on almost every page, while apparent digressions lead the reader back to the central argument in surprising ways. It is a pleasure to read and will further establish Fudge as the foremost scholar of early modern animal studies.
*AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW*