Download or read book Horse and Man in Early Modern England written by Peter Edwards and published by Bloomsbury Continuum. This book was released on 2007-05-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how, in pre-industrial England, horses were bred and trained, what they ate, how much they were worth, how long they lived, and what their owners thought of them. While they were named individually, and sometimes became favourites, many were worked hard and poorly treated, leading to their early deaths.