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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... illustration, documentary sources and literary evidence together to lay bare the purposes, methods, customs and rituals ... illustrations show, in the aristocratic knowledge and appreciation of general practice. Nevertheless the boar and ...
... illustration, documentary sources and literary evidence together to lay bare the purposes, methods, customs and rituals ... illustrations show, in the aristocratic knowledge and appreciation of general practice. Nevertheless the boar and ...
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... illustrated heritage of 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 ...
... illustrated heritage of 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 ...
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... illustrated. My approach to sorting this somewhat unwieldy corpus of evidence into a useable and coherent structure was to divide the material into two chapters: in chapter two, the elements of aristocratic prerogative, dress and ...
... illustrated. My approach to sorting this somewhat unwieldy corpus of evidence into a useable and coherent structure was to divide the material into two chapters: in chapter two, the elements of aristocratic prerogative, dress and ...
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... illustrated material from hundreds of years ago, presents particular problems and challenges to the historian ... illustration, whether it be from a manuscript, painting, misericord or tapestry. This multiplicity of possible meanings ...
... illustrated material from hundreds of years ago, presents particular problems and challenges to the historian ... illustration, whether it be from a manuscript, painting, misericord or tapestry. This multiplicity of possible meanings ...
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... education inevitably included instruction in hunting and hawking, and his poems, such as The Booke of the Duchesse and The Assembly of Foules contain many references and allusions to both aristocratic activities. Several illustrations.
... education inevitably included instruction in hunting and hawking, and his poems, such as The Booke of the Duchesse and The Assembly of Foules contain many references and allusions to both aristocratic activities. Several illustrations.
Contents
Three Bestis and Crafte | |
Four Everyman | |
Five Crossing the Barriers | |
Six Medieval Dianas | |
Seven Conclusions | |
Bibliography | |
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