作者: Fudge

What was the life of a cow in early modern England like? What would it be like to milk that same cow, day-in, day-out, for over a decade? How did people feel about and toward the animals that they wo …

Early modern English thinkers were fascinated by the subject of animal rationality, even before the appearance of Descartes’s Discourse on the Method (1637) and its famous declaration of the automati …