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 36
... animals , particularly those associated with aristocratic hunting . It appears from the style and pose of some of the animals that Pisanello's painting was informed by personal knowledge of the illuminations in Livre de chasse , and ...
... animals , particularly those associated with aristocratic hunting . It appears from the style and pose of some of the animals that Pisanello's painting was informed by personal knowledge of the illuminations in Livre de chasse , and ...
Page 86
... animals entered the forest . He continues to explain the origin of the term : in this month there must be watch and ... animals were fit and in prime fat condition , not to the modern considerations of mating , pregnancy and nursing ...
... animals entered the forest . He continues to explain the origin of the term : in this month there must be watch and ... animals were fit and in prime fat condition , not to the modern considerations of mating , pregnancy and nursing ...
Page 107
... animal lands after it has jumped over the hurdle or stone wall.81 The beast falls through the covering into the pit where it can be despatched by the farmer . Other large animals could be trapped using this peasant method . The wolf was ...
... animal lands after it has jumped over the hurdle or stone wall.81 The beast falls through the covering into the pit where it can be despatched by the farmer . Other large animals could be trapped using this peasant method . The wolf was ...
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animals aristocratic hunting Art of Hunting beast birds Birrell British Library Calendar carcass century chapter chase common commonalty hunting Dalby dress Egerton England English falcon falconry fallow deer female ferrets fifteenth-century Forest Laws Gaston Fébus gentle hunters German Gottfried von Strassburg greyhounds H & H hare hart horse horseback hounds hunt establishment hunt servants Hunters and Poachers hunting and hawking hunting books hunting manuals huntsman Ibid illustrations knight ladies late medieval later Middle Ages Livre de chasse London Luttrell Psalter manuscript Master of Game Maurice Keen Maximilian medieval hunting methods misericords nets Nicholas Orme nobility noble numbers particularly pastime peasant Pisanello poaching practice probably quarry species Queen Mary's Psalter rabbits rank red deer repr ritual Roy Modus royal Saint Albans social society sources sport stag hunt status tapestry Tilander Tretyse off Huntyng Tristan Twiti venery veneur venison warren wild boar wolf women