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 59
... illustrations , particularly manuscripts , the reasons perhaps being twofold . Firstly , although there was no single breed of these swift hounds which hunted by sight , giving rise to the old term of ' gazehounds ' , they all tended ...
... illustrations , particularly manuscripts , the reasons perhaps being twofold . Firstly , although there was no single breed of these swift hounds which hunted by sight , giving rise to the old term of ' gazehounds ' , they all tended ...
Page 100
... illustrated . The one factor which is clear is that the aristocratic authors of the most informative late medieval hunting ... illustrations may not always have reflected practice in the hunting field , the reason being that illuminated ...
... illustrated . The one factor which is clear is that the aristocratic authors of the most informative late medieval hunting ... illustrations may not always have reflected practice in the hunting field , the reason being that illuminated ...
Page 160
... illustrations featuring female falconers . Men were in fact conceding that falconry was not an exclusively masculine preserve , unlike hunting where women were perhaps regarded at best as ' guests ' and at worst as ' intruders ...
... illustrations featuring female falconers . Men were in fact conceding that falconry was not an exclusively masculine preserve , unlike hunting where women were perhaps regarded at best as ' guests ' and at worst as ' intruders ...
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