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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... book apart from earlier works on the subject is the skilled reading of the visual evidence, set against the poetic treatment of the topic and the information provided in the instructional manuals which guided aristocratic hunting ...
... book apart from earlier works on the subject is the skilled reading of the visual evidence, set against the poetic treatment of the topic and the information provided in the instructional manuals which guided aristocratic hunting ...
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... hunting in the Middle Ages and of its place and functions in late medieval ... hunting and a wide variety of beasts and birds to hunt, many of which are no longer legitimate quarry species. Hunting and ... manuals and treatises Introduction.
... hunting in the Middle Ages and of its place and functions in late medieval ... hunting and a wide variety of beasts and birds to hunt, many of which are no longer legitimate quarry species. Hunting and ... manuals and treatises Introduction.
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Richard Almond. methodology, dress and correct behaviour. These didactic manuals ... hunting and hawking is, perhaps, by its very nature, more immediately ... hunting is vitally important in the clarification, assemblage and creation of a ...
Richard Almond. methodology, dress and correct behaviour. These didactic manuals ... hunting and hawking is, perhaps, by its very nature, more immediately ... hunting is vitally important in the clarification, assemblage and creation of a ...
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... hunting manuals and treatises and the rhymes can only be fully understood when the language is properly clarified. Man's atavistic traits and the need to be 'at one with nature' were inevitably experienced far more strongly by medieval ...
... hunting manuals and treatises and the rhymes can only be fully understood when the language is properly clarified. Man's atavistic traits and the need to be 'at one with nature' were inevitably experienced far more strongly by medieval ...
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... hunting exclusively with the upper levels of medieval society is not only inaccurate but completely unrealistic. This bias in favour of hunting as a purely élitist pastime was initiated by the authors of the manuals, particularly the ...
... hunting exclusively with the upper levels of medieval society is not only inaccurate but completely unrealistic. This bias in favour of hunting as a purely élitist pastime was initiated by the authors of the manuals, particularly the ...
Contents
Three Bestis and Crafte | |
Four Everyman | |
Five Crossing the Barriers | |
Six Medieval Dianas | |
Seven Conclusions | |
Bibliography | |
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