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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... gentle origins by demonstrating their personal knowledge of hunting . Gottfried von Strassburg , the author of Tristan , was probably a member of the urban patriciate of Strassburg , a very cultured man who was also ' deeply versed in ...
... gentle origins by demonstrating their personal knowledge of hunting . Gottfried von Strassburg , the author of Tristan , was probably a member of the urban patriciate of Strassburg , a very cultured man who was also ' deeply versed in ...
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... Gentle Reader ' , 27 a convention probably originally based upon the gentle status of the reading audience . John Cummins makes the point that medieval hunting manuals written in English tend to be ' pervaded by the procedural and ...
... Gentle Reader ' , 27 a convention probably originally based upon the gentle status of the reading audience . John Cummins makes the point that medieval hunting manuals written in English tend to be ' pervaded by the procedural and ...
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... Gentle in chiefe . The falcon is called the Falcon Gentle , for his [ sic ] gentle and curteous conditions and factions . In hart and courage she is valiant , ventrous , strong.84 The emphasis is on the ' gentle ' or ' noble ' nature of ...
... Gentle in chiefe . The falcon is called the Falcon Gentle , for his [ sic ] gentle and curteous conditions and factions . In hart and courage she is valiant , ventrous , strong.84 The emphasis is on the ' gentle ' or ' noble ' nature of ...
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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