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 67
... hare and both late medieval English and French hunters regarded this animal with great esteem . William Twiti begins his treatise with the hare , a sign of its quarry status , as he deems it ' þe most merveylous beste þat is in þis lond ...
... hare and both late medieval English and French hunters regarded this animal with great esteem . William Twiti begins his treatise with the hare , a sign of its quarry status , as he deems it ' þe most merveylous beste þat is in þis lond ...
Page 68
... hare as a quarry species in England are reflected in its widespread appearance in pictorial sources . The hare often appears in the margins of illuminated manuscripts as a hunter of men , exemplifying the ' world upside- down ' of ...
... hare as a quarry species in England are reflected in its widespread appearance in pictorial sources . The hare often appears in the margins of illuminated manuscripts as a hunter of men , exemplifying the ' world upside- down ' of ...
Page 145
... hares was an established fact and this traditional association is continued by modern hare hunters who always refer to the quarry as ' she ' , irrespective of its sex.10 Another hunting personification term for the hare is ' puss ...
... hares was an established fact and this traditional association is continued by modern hare hunters who always refer to the quarry as ' she ' , irrespective of its sex.10 Another hunting personification term for the hare is ' puss ...
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