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 9
... hunting as a purely élitist pastime was initiated by the authors of the manuals , particularly the English writers , who largely ignored the hunting methods of the commonalty and in their writings con- centrated on upper - class hunting ...
... hunting as a purely élitist pastime was initiated by the authors of the manuals , particularly the English writers , who largely ignored the hunting methods of the commonalty and in their writings con- centrated on upper - class hunting ...
Page 34
... hunting , boar hunting and hawking , plus two panels of decorative work , almost certainly commissioned by Sir Edward Hynde , the owner between these dates and a known enthusiast for hawking and animal - baiting.33 In both the bear and ...
... hunting , boar hunting and hawking , plus two panels of decorative work , almost certainly commissioned by Sir Edward Hynde , the owner between these dates and a known enthusiast for hawking and animal - baiting.33 In both the bear and ...
Page 170
... hunting scene , though still a part of it . He is also , in medieval eyes , marginal to the theme of hunting and yet an acknowledged , though lesser , element . The nobles hunt in aristocratic style , legitimately and in public , while ...
... hunting scene , though still a part of it . He is also , in medieval eyes , marginal to the theme of hunting and yet an acknowledged , though lesser , element . The nobles hunt in aristocratic style , legitimately and in public , while ...
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