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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... live in the countryside , visiting and administering their estates and manors . Many of the great monasteries and abbeys were situated in great rural estates . There were few towns and cities , and in England , with the exception of ...
... live in the countryside , visiting and administering their estates and manors . Many of the great monasteries and abbeys were situated in great rural estates . There were few towns and cities , and in England , with the exception of ...
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... live within the Forest , ' for they are the common dressers of skins of stolen deer ' . If apprehended , they were removed and had to pay a fine at the Forest eyre.70 Various medicines were made up by apothecaries from antler , and the ...
... live within the Forest , ' for they are the common dressers of skins of stolen deer ' . If apprehended , they were removed and had to pay a fine at the Forest eyre.70 Various medicines were made up by apothecaries from antler , and the ...
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Richard Almond. which were lured in to mob a live owl decoy . This method is also illustrated in Roy Modus.66 The practice of using live or artificial decoys to attract prey is an ancient one , the decoy being either of the same species ...
Richard Almond. which were lured in to mob a live owl decoy . This method is also illustrated in Roy Modus.66 The practice of using live or artificial decoys to attract prey is an ancient one , the decoy being either of the same species ...
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