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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Richard Almond. of evidence which strongly supports this belief. The available material indicates that rank and status were the deciding factors in how one hunted and what was hunted. In other words, different levels of society hunted in ...
Richard Almond. of evidence which strongly supports this belief. The available material indicates that rank and status were the deciding factors in how one hunted and what was hunted. In other words, different levels of society hunted in ...
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... indicate that the population of York, the socalled capital of the north, may have numbered some eleven thousand at the end of the fourteenth century,12 slightly larger than a small modern market town such as Richmond in North Yorkshire ...
... indicate that the population of York, the socalled capital of the north, may have numbered some eleven thousand at the end of the fourteenth century,12 slightly larger than a small modern market town such as Richmond in North Yorkshire ...
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... indicated and expected of the true hunter. These early books of instruction were compiled and written by aristocratic authors for the education of aristocratic or 'gentle' hunters, young and old. To authors of works on hunting such as ...
... indicated and expected of the true hunter. These early books of instruction were compiled and written by aristocratic authors for the education of aristocratic or 'gentle' hunters, young and old. To authors of works on hunting such as ...
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... indicates.18 In The Stag of Love, Marcelle Thiébaux comments that 'there is no lack of medieval evidence of the hunt's widespread practice'19 and this can reasonably be interpreted to include the participation of those other than the ...
... indicates.18 In The Stag of Love, Marcelle Thiébaux comments that 'there is no lack of medieval evidence of the hunt's widespread practice'19 and this can reasonably be interpreted to include the participation of those other than the ...
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... indicating they were 'lerned' both by birth and training.19 Because of this early instruction, the upper classes took hunting and hawking as part of their existence for granted and, in addition, the rest of society expected them to ...
... indicating they were 'lerned' both by birth and training.19 Because of this early instruction, the upper classes took hunting and hawking as part of their existence for granted and, in addition, the rest of society expected them to ...
Contents
Three Bestis and Crafte | |
Four Everyman | |
Five Crossing the Barriers | |
Six Medieval Dianas | |
Seven Conclusions | |
Bibliography | |
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