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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... rabbit skin, to wrap a Baby Bunting in'. On wider and higher literary levels, the works of Boccaccio, Chaucer and Shakespeare all include passages about, and clear allusions to, hunting and hawking, as do those of many other writers of ...
... rabbit skin, to wrap a Baby Bunting in'. On wider and higher literary levels, the works of Boccaccio, Chaucer and Shakespeare all include passages about, and clear allusions to, hunting and hawking, as do those of many other writers of ...
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... and, with the exception of foxes and wolves, just about every animal and bird was considered edible. Rabbits, usually referred to in the medieval texts as conies, a term derived from the Latin coningus,50 were in a category of.
... and, with the exception of foxes and wolves, just about every animal and bird was considered edible. Rabbits, usually referred to in the medieval texts as conies, a term derived from the Latin coningus,50 were in a category of.
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... rabbit hunters in question, so is their gender, and Queen Mary's Psalter shows peasant women taking rabbits at an artificial warren using ferrets and nets.55 Although rabbits were thus unusual as a quarry species in medieval England ...
... rabbit hunters in question, so is their gender, and Queen Mary's Psalter shows peasant women taking rabbits at an artificial warren using ferrets and nets.55 Although rabbits were thus unusual as a quarry species in medieval England ...
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... Rabbit fur was much sought after by the lower classes, especially in the fifteenth century as prosperity increased in the towns and ports.60 The white bellyfur from conies resembled the higher status ermine and was used as an imitation ...
... Rabbit fur was much sought after by the lower classes, especially in the fifteenth century as prosperity increased in the towns and ports.60 The white bellyfur from conies resembled the higher status ermine and was used as an imitation ...
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... rabbit was associated with women and the hound with men, a clear and erotic connection which can be seen in a number of manuscripts.45 However, it is the exclusive nature of aristocratic hunting and aristocratic love which is under ...
... rabbit was associated with women and the hound with men, a clear and erotic connection which can be seen in a number of manuscripts.45 However, it is the exclusive nature of aristocratic hunting and aristocratic love which is under ...
Contents
Three Bestis and Crafte | |
Four Everyman | |
Five Crossing the Barriers | |
Six Medieval Dianas | |
Seven Conclusions | |
Bibliography | |
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