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 100
... common hunters did not . Thus , we cannot judge status purely on dress code , although it can be a significant indicator , depending upon the context of hunting which is described or illustrated . The one factor which is clear is that ...
... common hunters did not . Thus , we cannot judge status purely on dress code , although it can be a significant indicator , depending upon the context of hunting which is described or illustrated . The one factor which is clear is that ...
Page 106
... common men a vital food resource . Large game birds were a tempting target for the common hunter , but their successful capture required some careful preparation . A simple method illustrated in Roy Modus of securing a cock pheasant is ...
... common men a vital food resource . Large game birds were a tempting target for the common hunter , but their successful capture required some careful preparation . A simple method illustrated in Roy Modus of securing a cock pheasant is ...
Page 168
... common feature of everyday life on the great estate . The marginal hunting pictures in The Luttrell Psalter indicate this and the few illustrations of peasant hunting show that Sir Geoffrey Luttrell acknowledged not only its occurrence ...
... common feature of everyday life on the great estate . The marginal hunting pictures in The Luttrell Psalter indicate this and the few illustrations of peasant hunting show that Sir Geoffrey Luttrell acknowledged not only its occurrence ...
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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