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 65
... deer had to be kept apart . Herds of red deer were still to be found in Windsor Forest , Ashdown Forest and at least three other parks in Sussex in the reign of James I.22 So , although the great hart survived in the English hunting ...
... deer had to be kept apart . Herds of red deer were still to be found in Windsor Forest , Ashdown Forest and at least three other parks in Sussex in the reign of James I.22 So , although the great hart survived in the English hunting ...
Page 86
... deer should be absolutely undisturbed during three or four weeks after the fawning season . The deer had complete precedence ; it was clearly imperative and doubtless enforced , that no commoner or his animals entered the forest . He ...
... deer should be absolutely undisturbed during three or four weeks after the fawning season . The deer had complete precedence ; it was clearly imperative and doubtless enforced , that no commoner or his animals entered the forest . He ...
Page 131
... deer from a park in Somerset belonging to the Bishop of Bath and Wells . As a defiant gesture to the bishop and his keepers , he set up the deer heads upon pales in the same park , apparently encouraging others to hunt illegally in the ...
... deer from a park in Somerset belonging to the Bishop of Bath and Wells . As a defiant gesture to the bishop and his keepers , he set up the deer heads upon pales in the same park , apparently encouraging others to hunt illegally in the ...
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