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 34
... bear and boar hunting scenes , gentleman - hunters on horseback and more plainly dressed servants on foot use spears to slay the beasts which are being attacked by mastiffs and greyhounds . Bear- baiting was a popular entertainment and ...
... bear and boar hunting scenes , gentleman - hunters on horseback and more plainly dressed servants on foot use spears to slay the beasts which are being attacked by mastiffs and greyhounds . Bear- baiting was a popular entertainment and ...
Page 62
... bear does not feature in The Art of Venerie or the Boke of Huntyng , the logical reason for its exclusion being its complete extinction in England centuries earlier . However , it was still common on mainland Europe in the late medieval ...
... bear does not feature in The Art of Venerie or the Boke of Huntyng , the logical reason for its exclusion being its complete extinction in England centuries earlier . However , it was still common on mainland Europe in the late medieval ...
Page 69
... bear hunt in the forest of Sauveterre.47 In Iberia the bear had high quarry status , both Alfonso XI of Castile and John I of Portugal regarding it as royal game.48 The Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I was also an ardent bear - hunter ...
... bear hunt in the forest of Sauveterre.47 In Iberia the bear had high quarry status , both Alfonso XI of Castile and John I of Portugal regarding it as royal game.48 The Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I was also an ardent bear - hunter ...
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