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 13
... classes as a genre and as a class . The Second Estate , the nobility and knights , hunted and were expected to do so . Not everybody in the establishment automatically approved , however ; in his satirical work Policraticus , John of ...
... classes as a genre and as a class . The Second Estate , the nobility and knights , hunted and were expected to do so . Not everybody in the establishment automatically approved , however ; in his satirical work Policraticus , John of ...
Page 16
... class which spoke its own technical language of venery and understood the hunters ' catechism of specialised vocabulary , indicating they were ' lerned ' both by birth and training.19 Because of this early instruction , the upper classes ...
... class which spoke its own technical language of venery and understood the hunters ' catechism of specialised vocabulary , indicating they were ' lerned ' both by birth and training.19 Because of this early instruction , the upper classes ...
Page 95
... classes . 19 Setting aside Marxist notions of class persecution and of Ricardian political motivations , the significance of the statute to historians is obvious - it indicates that an increasing number of commoners were participating ...
... classes . 19 Setting aside Marxist notions of class persecution and of Ricardian political motivations , the significance of the statute to historians is obvious - it indicates that an increasing number of commoners were participating ...
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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