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1999 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 1169-1173
Author(s):  
Arthur F. Kinney
Author(s):  
Erica Fudge

Reading the evidence from wills alongside agricultural manuals, and work from agricultural and social history, this chapter takes the sometimes detailed descriptions of animals that appear in wills and uses them to explore the day-to-day world of agricultural production in early modern England. Central here is the economic significance of animals – in particular horses, pigs, sheep, and cows - to those who owned them, and what that tells us about the lives of all those in the yards, fields and barns of the period.


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