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 vii
... aristocracy , understandably because the surviving sources were generated for their use and pleasure . Besides throwing new light on aristocratic hunting , especially the under - researched participation of women , Almond here does full ...
... aristocracy , understandably because the surviving sources were generated for their use and pleasure . Besides throwing new light on aristocratic hunting , especially the under - researched participation of women , Almond here does full ...
Page 10
... Aristocratic hunting is both well documented and profusely illustrated . My approach to sorting this somewhat unwieldy corpus of evidence into a useable and coherent structure was to divide the material into two chapters : in chapter ...
... Aristocratic hunting is both well documented and profusely illustrated . My approach to sorting this somewhat unwieldy corpus of evidence into a useable and coherent structure was to divide the material into two chapters : in chapter ...
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... aristocratic hunter was very definitely identifying himself and other sportsmen of his class with the accepted ' beasts of venery ' , an aristocratic form of anthropomorphism , more profound than simple humane respect for the quarry ...
... aristocratic hunter was very definitely identifying himself and other sportsmen of his class with the accepted ' beasts of venery ' , an aristocratic form of anthropomorphism , more profound than simple humane respect for the quarry ...
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