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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... York , dedicated The Master of Game to King Henry IV's eldest son , Henry of Monmouth , Prince of Wales , Duke of Cornwall and Earl of Chester . 18 The Shirley manuscript of The Master of Game concludes that ' pis lytell tretys ' should ...
... York , dedicated The Master of Game to King Henry IV's eldest son , Henry of Monmouth , Prince of Wales , Duke of Cornwall and Earl of Chester . 18 The Shirley manuscript of The Master of Game concludes that ' pis lytell tretys ' should ...
Page 120
... York , as Master of Game to Henry IV , was an aristocrat by birth , but it was possible in the higher grades of royal huntsman to achieve nobility . John Cummins remarks , ' it appears that a huntsman not born into the nobility could ...
... York , as Master of Game to Henry IV , was an aristocrat by birth , but it was possible in the higher grades of royal huntsman to achieve nobility . John Cummins remarks , ' it appears that a huntsman not born into the nobility could ...
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... York Seminars , at the Centre for Medieval Studies , University of York , 3 December 2001. These ideas will be more fully set forward in Professor Pollard's forthcoming study of the Robin Hood stories , to be published by Routledge . 29 ...
... York Seminars , at the Centre for Medieval Studies , University of York , 3 December 2001. These ideas will be more fully set forward in Professor Pollard's forthcoming study of the Robin Hood stories , to be published by Routledge . 29 ...
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