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 38
... follows : The amusements of most men in the court were active and outdoor . Of these hunting was the chief , and the sound of the dogs [ sic ] , the bustle and excitement of gaily - clad riders , the thrills of the chase , the ...
... follows : The amusements of most men in the court were active and outdoor . Of these hunting was the chief , and the sound of the dogs [ sic ] , the bustle and excitement of gaily - clad riders , the thrills of the chase , the ...
Page 82
... follows , including ] . . and delyuere it to be procatours of þe chirch þat owen to haue it [ and ] . . . some to ... follow it up . The technique was not new in England . Large - scale driving of red and fallow deer , called ' drifting ...
... follows , including ] . . and delyuere it to be procatours of þe chirch þat owen to haue it [ and ] . . . some to ... follow it up . The technique was not new in England . Large - scale driving of red and fallow deer , called ' drifting ...
Page 160
... follows : a lady of rank putting up duck from a fountain by beating a gong ; flying a peregrine at duck ; her bird striking the prey ; using a lure of feathers to bring in her falcon after an unsuccessful flight ; rewarding the bird ...
... follows : a lady of rank putting up duck from a fountain by beating a gong ; flying a peregrine at duck ; her bird striking the prey ; using a lure of feathers to bring in her falcon after an unsuccessful flight ; rewarding the bird ...
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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