Horses and Oxen on the Farm 1580-1660

$15 · Offered by Kitchen Arts & Letters

Historical rabbit holes, for those who are inclined. These slender booklets from Historical Management Associates are the work of an organization dedicated to historical re-enactment in the UK. They are written with a stickler’s attention to historical precision and a conviction that nothing is too arcane to investigate. Some of the books are simple transcriptions of period manuscripts; ot hers represent significant original research, as in Cattle Farming and Grazing Management, which is 52 pages long but cites 36 sources, many of them published in the 17th century. From the introduction: "This brief work covers the horse and the ox on the farm in the late Tudor and Early Stuart period. It examines who owned what numbers and types of the animals. For horses it covers how they were fed, their tack, housing, uses and health care." Staplebound pamphlet. 48 pages.

• Binding: Hardcover

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