Medieval HuntingThe History Press, 2011 M10 24 - 224 pages Hunting was a major economic and leisure activity throughout the European Middle Ages, and while aristocratic practices have featured in studies of romantic and narrative literature, hunting in its wider sense, across the social spectrum with attendant male and female roles, has larged been ignored by modern medieval historians. Richard Almond's study brings vividly to life the universality and centrality of hunting to medieval societies, both as an economic necessity and as an expression of medieval humanity's amost atavistic sense of oneness with nature. Medieval Hunting dispels some of the myths and misunderstandings about hunting, including the persistent view that it was exclusively an aristocratic pursuit and a male one at that. Using a wide variety of contemporary textual and art historical evidence, Richard Almond demonstrates convincingly that hunting, including fishing and all manner of poaching, was enjoyed by all classes, and by women as well as men. |
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... animal or bird, using any method or technique. Wilhelm Schlag, the author of the Summary and Commentary accompanying The Hunting Book of Gaston Phébus, a recent translation of Manuscrit français 616, the best version of Livre de chasse ...
... animal or bird, using any method or technique. Wilhelm Schlag, the author of the Summary and Commentary accompanying The Hunting Book of Gaston Phébus, a recent translation of Manuscrit français 616, the best version of Livre de chasse ...
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... each day to work. Animals were kept in yards and gardens within the town. Townsmen of all levels hunted and poached in the fields and woods surrounding the town, using the same methods as their rural brethren. Wealthy townsmen,
... each day to work. Animals were kept in yards and gardens within the town. Townsmen of all levels hunted and poached in the fields and woods surrounding the town, using the same methods as their rural brethren. Wealthy townsmen,
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... animals. Many of these creatures were regarded as enemies by a society based upon agriculture,25 particularly by the peasants whose fields, orchards and animals were plundered. Langland refers to this problem when he comments 'Thy shep ...
... animals. Many of these creatures were regarded as enemies by a society based upon agriculture,25 particularly by the peasants whose fields, orchards and animals were plundered. Langland refers to this problem when he comments 'Thy shep ...
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... animals for food or fur'.34 For the upper classes, methodology and courtly practice were inextricably connected and ... animal was hunted for sport or to replenish the larder, and this word was a familiar one in even the highest of.
... animals for food or fur'.34 For the upper classes, methodology and courtly practice were inextricably connected and ... animal was hunted for sport or to replenish the larder, and this word was a familiar one in even the highest of.
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... animals and birds. In Livre de chasse, Gaston Fébus is one of the few authors to include a number of commonalty ... animal and bird was considered edible. Rabbits, usually referred to in the medieval texts as conies, a term derived from ...
... animals and birds. In Livre de chasse, Gaston Fébus is one of the few authors to include a number of commonalty ... animal and bird was considered edible. Rabbits, usually referred to in the medieval texts as conies, a term derived from ...
Contents
Three Bestis and Crafte | |
Four Everyman | |
Five Crossing the Barriers | |
Six Medieval Dianas | |
Seven Conclusions | |
Bibliography | |
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