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 iv
... hart in water , while a lymerer struggles to restrain his scenting - hound . The hunter uses a cross - bow to despatch the hart , held at bay by hounds , while the hind escapes . Gaston Fébus superintends the strict procedures of ...
... hart in water , while a lymerer struggles to restrain his scenting - hound . The hunter uses a cross - bow to despatch the hart , held at bay by hounds , while the hind escapes . Gaston Fébus superintends the strict procedures of ...
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... hart of ten and first is he chaseable , for always before shall he be called rascal or folly'.16 The hart was regarded as royal game , and so belonged to the king or ruler of the country . Hunting the wild hart was thus a royal ...
... hart of ten and first is he chaseable , for always before shall he be called rascal or folly'.16 The hart was regarded as royal game , and so belonged to the king or ruler of the country . Hunting the wild hart was thus a royal ...
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... hart , and therefore men say in old saws , ' after the boar the leech and after the hart the bier . ' For he smiteth as the stroke of the springole , for he has great strength in the head and the body.20 The risks of injury or death ...
... hart , and therefore men say in old saws , ' after the boar the leech and after the hart the bier . ' For he smiteth as the stroke of the springole , for he has great strength in the head and the body.20 The risks of injury or death ...
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