Cattle

A verse work of agricultur al advice written by a 16th century English farmer. An enlarged edition of his work, Five Hundreth Pointes of Good Husbandrie , was published in 1573.

General notes on medieval cattle breeds.

Asnapium: An Inventory of One of Charlemagne's Estates, c. 800 from the Medieval Sourcebook. Examples of included items are: bed clothes, kitchen ware, farm implements, measures of dry goods and harvests, cattle and fowl, specific garden herb and trees.

Animals were present everywhere in the everyday life of the Middle Ages: wild animals, like bears, wolves, wild boars, and deer; fish; poultry and farm animals; and the companions of the warrior, the peasant, and the hunter, like horses, falcons, and dogs.

The fauna of Anglo-Saxon England was plentiful and varied, and included some animals that have since been made extinct in this country. The vast areas of uninhabited forests, heaths and fells were home to many creatures, in addition to the other wild creatures that inhabited the towns and villages including the domestic animals.

Seneschauc ie is an anonymous document of the later 13th century, thought to date from the early 1270s, describing the roles of all officers and manorial servants on an idealised estate. It is not a guide to agricultur al practice, but to organisati on and man-manage ment.

One of the earliest manuscript s to deal specifical ly with 17th century agricultur e in Scotland was written by John Skene of the Hallyards, who succeeded to the estate in 1644, and died in 1669.

Medieval livestock. Pigs, cattle, sheep. Modern efforts to preserve older breeds. Differences between period and modern livestock.

A dialogue on the labors of plowmen, shepherds, oxherds, and fishermen.

The size, weight and carcass compositio n of cattle and sheep in early modern Scotland.

This translatio n of Walter of Henley&#39 ;s Treatise on Husbandry, which was written in the third quarter of the 13th century. The treatise is aimed at the owners of medium and large estates who worked their demesne lands, rather than farmed them out for cash rents, but might have little direct knowledge of agricultur e.