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Richard C Hoffmann

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Department of History

Professor Emeritus
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Office: 2177 Vari Hall
Email: medfish@yorku.ca

Interests: Environmental history, premodern Europe

Degrees

BA History, University of Wisconsin
PhD Medieval Studies, Yale University
Books

Publication
Year

. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. [xx + 578 pp.]

Fishers' Craft and Lettered Art: Tracts on Fishing from the End of the Middle Ages. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997 [xvi + 403 pp.] Excerpted in The American Fly Fisher, 24:1 (Winter 1998), 1-10.

An Environmental History of Medieval Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. [xviii + 409 pp.]

The Catch. An Environmental History of medieval European Fisheries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. [xxvi + 556 pp.]


Interests: Environmental history, premodern Europe

Degrees

BA History, University of Wisconsin
PhD Medieval Studies, Yale University

All Publications


Books

Publication
Year

. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. [xx + 578 pp.]

Fishers' Craft and Lettered Art: Tracts on Fishing from the End of the Middle Ages. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997 [xvi + 403 pp.] Excerpted in The American Fly Fisher, 24:1 (Winter 1998), 1-10.

An Environmental History of Medieval Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. [xviii + 409 pp.]

The Catch. An Environmental History of medieval European Fisheries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. [xxvi + 556 pp.]