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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... medieval'. For the revised edition of Medieval Hunting (2011) my grateful thanks to John Langton and Graham Jones of St John's College, Oxford, for the most recent figures of forests and chases. Thanks also to Colin McKelvie for his ...
... medieval'. For the revised edition of Medieval Hunting (2011) my grateful thanks to John Langton and Graham Jones of St John's College, Oxford, for the most recent figures of forests and chases. Thanks also to Colin McKelvie for his ...
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... hunting. As a result they tended to underrate its significance in the medieval centuries. They would note its popularity, especially with the aristocracy, and pass on, regretting the frivolity (or the cruelty), to other weightier and ...
... hunting. As a result they tended to underrate its significance in the medieval centuries. They would note its popularity, especially with the aristocracy, and pass on, regretting the frivolity (or the cruelty), to other weightier and ...
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... Hunting was thus more than a pastime, a preparation for war, or part of the struggle for existence; it ritually reenacted male domination. To be learned in venery was as essential an attribute of nobility as to be wellversed in chivalry ...
... Hunting was thus more than a pastime, a preparation for war, or part of the struggle for existence; it ritually reenacted male domination. To be learned in venery was as essential an attribute of nobility as to be wellversed in chivalry ...
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... medieval society. In the timespan with which this book primarily deals, the later medieval period and Renaissance (roughly from the early thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth centuries), there were numerous methods of hunting and a ...
... medieval society. In the timespan with which this book primarily deals, the later medieval period and Renaissance (roughly from the early thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth centuries), there were numerous methods of hunting and a ...
Contents
Three Bestis and Crafte | |
Four Everyman | |
Five Crossing the Barriers | |
Six Medieval Dianas | |
Seven Conclusions | |
Bibliography | |
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