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 151
... clearly the ladies . . have not been charging through river and thicket in pursuit of boar , bear or deer . '29 ˇ Admiring ladies are also conspicuous in the April and September tapestries of Les Chasses de Maximilien cycle in the ...
... clearly the ladies . . have not been charging through river and thicket in pursuit of boar , bear or deer . '29 ˇ Admiring ladies are also conspicuous in the April and September tapestries of Les Chasses de Maximilien cycle in the ...
Page 167
... clearly demonstrate this preoccupation with élitism too . A very few hunting books contain evidence for more widespread practices , and these , together with other evidence , such as statutes , Forest court records , hunt establishment ...
... clearly demonstrate this preoccupation with élitism too . A very few hunting books contain evidence for more widespread practices , and these , together with other evidence , such as statutes , Forest court records , hunt establishment ...
Page 170
... clearly been unhorsed , perhaps an indication of the danger of hunting at speed in the forest . However , this is not the whole story . Nearby , a poor man with a crossbow , probably a poacher , is also hunting , and he is taking a pot ...
... clearly been unhorsed , perhaps an indication of the danger of hunting at speed in the forest . However , this is not the whole story . Nearby , a poor man with a crossbow , probably a poacher , is also hunting , and he is taking a pot ...
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