Medieval HuntingSutton, 2003 - 216 pages Using a variety of sources (hunting treatises, assize books, manorial and ecclesiastical records, books of hours and literary collections) and pictures (which include the Emperor Maxmillian stag hunting, two ladies jousting, peasants rabbiting with ferrets and camouflage techniques such as disguising yourself as a woodcock), this book aims to bring to life the centrality of hunting to medieval societies, both as an economic necessity and as an expression of medieval humanity's sense of oneness with nature. Almond shows that all classes enjoyed hunting (in which he includes fishing, hawking and poaching) and women enjoyed it as well as men. |
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Page 63
... German manual illustrates the importance of the stag to German noble hunters by its very specialisation . Die Lehre von den Zeichen des Hirsches is an instructive examination of the tracks and signs of the stag , all indications of ...
... German manual illustrates the importance of the stag to German noble hunters by its very specialisation . Die Lehre von den Zeichen des Hirsches is an instructive examination of the tracks and signs of the stag , all indications of ...
Page 73
... German sources to this traditional method of hunting the stag , and to a lesser degree , the hare . The fallow deer , roebuck , boar , wolf , bear and fox , were also hunted by nobles in this manner . So , as with literature , members ...
... German sources to this traditional method of hunting the stag , and to a lesser degree , the hare . The fallow deer , roebuck , boar , wolf , bear and fox , were also hunted by nobles in this manner . So , as with literature , members ...
Page 210
Richard Almond. German hart - hunting practice 79 German Peasants ' War , 1524-5 93 , 106 , 142 German poetry 155 Germanic forest 172 Gest of Robin Hood , The 76 Giraldus Cambrensis 24 Gloucester 7 Golden Legend 35 good fellowship 122 ...
Richard Almond. German hart - hunting practice 79 German Peasants ' War , 1524-5 93 , 106 , 142 German poetry 155 Germanic forest 172 Gest of Robin Hood , The 76 Giraldus Cambrensis 24 Gloucester 7 Golden Legend 35 good fellowship 122 ...
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