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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... chapters : in chapter two , the elements of aristocratic prerogative , dress and equipment are considered ; in chapter three , quarry type , language , methodology and techniques are examined . In contrast , commonalty hunting lacks ...
... chapters : in chapter two , the elements of aristocratic prerogative , dress and equipment are considered ; in chapter three , quarry type , language , methodology and techniques are examined . In contrast , commonalty hunting lacks ...
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... chapter five . Then there is the conundrum and ambiguity of medieval women hunting . Were they active participants with a true ' lernedness ' of venery or merely decorative audience on the sidelines ? Why were they apparently ...
... chapter five . Then there is the conundrum and ambiguity of medieval women hunting . Were they active participants with a true ' lernedness ' of venery or merely decorative audience on the sidelines ? Why were they apparently ...
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... chapter order , as does Fébus , but Edward omits the later chapters on hunting and trapping the wolf , probably for reasons of snobbery . The large amount of space allocated to the wolf in both Les livres du roy Modus et de la royne ...
... chapter order , as does Fébus , but Edward omits the later chapters on hunting and trapping the wolf , probably for reasons of snobbery . The large amount of space allocated to the wolf in both Les livres du roy Modus et de la royne ...
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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