Frontmatter
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