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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... hunting and hawking is, perhaps, by its very nature, more immediately fascinating. The evidence is overwhelming in variety and amount and includes fabulous illuminated manuscripts such as Books of Hours and psalters, panel paintings ...
... hunting and hawking is, perhaps, by its very nature, more immediately fascinating. The evidence is overwhelming in variety and amount and includes fabulous illuminated manuscripts such as Books of Hours and psalters, panel paintings ...
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... hunting in their overall considerations of late medieval society; these include Maurice Keen, Nicholas Orme, Anthony J. Pollard and Oliver Rackham. However, almost no specialist or singlestudy books on medieval hunting were published by ...
... hunting in their overall considerations of late medieval society; these include Maurice Keen, Nicholas Orme, Anthony J. Pollard and Oliver Rackham. However, almost no specialist or singlestudy books on medieval hunting were published by ...
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... hunting and shooting which still flourish today. Fortunately, much hunting and hawking methodology and wisdom was written down in what can be termed howtodoit books, the late medieval hunting texts. In spite of their frequent disorder ...
... hunting and shooting which still flourish today. Fortunately, much hunting and hawking methodology and wisdom was written down in what can be termed howtodoit books, the late medieval hunting texts. In spite of their frequent disorder ...
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... hunting rather than the obvious element of the chase 'This is what marks it as a noble sport, rather than the simple ... hunting books whether the animal was hunted for sport or to replenish the larder, and this word was a familiar one ...
... hunting rather than the obvious element of the chase 'This is what marks it as a noble sport, rather than the simple ... hunting books whether the animal was hunted for sport or to replenish the larder, and this word was a familiar one ...
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... hunting and hawking books were aristocratic, sometimes royal, and often closely connected to a royal or noble court. Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, the author of De Arte Venandi cum Avibus, possibly the most practical book ever written ...
... hunting and hawking books were aristocratic, sometimes royal, and often closely connected to a royal or noble court. Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, the author of De Arte Venandi cum Avibus, possibly the most practical book ever written ...
Contents
Three Bestis and Crafte | |
Four Everyman | |
Five Crossing the Barriers | |
Six Medieval Dianas | |
Seven Conclusions | |
Bibliography | |
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