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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... knowledge of literature , music and the visual arts and competence at dancing plus training for war , hunting , archery and indoor games . From hunting children learned several essential skills , including horsemanship and the ...
... knowledge of literature , music and the visual arts and competence at dancing plus training for war , hunting , archery and indoor games . From hunting children learned several essential skills , including horsemanship and the ...
Page 38
... knowledge of this way is a prerogative of the aristocracy and their skilled servants.'49 Spearing believes the Gawain - poet was a ' jantylman ' ( gentleman ) writing for other ' jantylmen ' , learned in the lore and language of hunting ...
... knowledge of this way is a prerogative of the aristocracy and their skilled servants.'49 Spearing believes the Gawain - poet was a ' jantylman ' ( gentleman ) writing for other ' jantylmen ' , learned in the lore and language of hunting ...
Page 147
... knowledge . He then continues : And in my simple manner as best I could and as might be learned of old and many diverse gentle hunters , I did my business in this rude manner to put the craft and the terms and the exercise of this said ...
... knowledge . He then continues : And in my simple manner as best I could and as might be learned of old and many diverse gentle hunters , I did my business in this rude manner to put the craft and the terms and the exercise of this said ...
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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