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 28
... established nobility with the newly arrived parvenus , always an easy target for aristocratic commentators . Hunting was therefore already well established as an indicator of rank and status in European society by the early thirteenth ...
... established nobility with the newly arrived parvenus , always an easy target for aristocratic commentators . Hunting was therefore already well established as an indicator of rank and status in European society by the early thirteenth ...
Page 76
... established Tristan as the original master of hunting lore and language79 and , not surprisingly , later medieval authors took their cue from him . In Tristan , Gottfried von Strassburg sets down procedural practice with which he , as a ...
... established Tristan as the original master of hunting lore and language79 and , not surprisingly , later medieval authors took their cue from him . In Tristan , Gottfried von Strassburg sets down procedural practice with which he , as a ...
Page 137
... established the Nova Foresta in 1079 as a preserve in which he could hunt deer . The Anglo - Saxon Chronicle , written sub anno 1087 , makes scathing comment on William and his punitive Forest Laws : He made many deer - parks , and he ...
... established the Nova Foresta in 1079 as a preserve in which he could hunt deer . The Anglo - Saxon Chronicle , written sub anno 1087 , makes scathing comment on William and his punitive Forest Laws : He made many deer - parks , and he ...
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