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 42
... male peregrine , from the French word tierce , meaning ' a third ' . The male is a third less in size than the female . Again , this term is sometimes used incorrectly , referring to the males of other Accipitridnae and Falconidae ...
... male peregrine , from the French word tierce , meaning ' a third ' . The male is a third less in size than the female . Again , this term is sometimes used incorrectly , referring to the males of other Accipitridnae and Falconidae ...
Page 146
... male expertise , education and authorship . The apparent lack of physical involvement by women in hunting wild quarry apart from hawking for which there is a mass of evidence - has been perpetuated by male writers on the subject for ...
... male expertise , education and authorship . The apparent lack of physical involvement by women in hunting wild quarry apart from hawking for which there is a mass of evidence - has been perpetuated by male writers on the subject for ...
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... male hunters , whose gender - defining main role , like that of their noble counterparts , was in killing the quarry . Taking life was the male prerogative , paralleled in the inescapable function of warriors , whatever their period or ...
... male hunters , whose gender - defining main role , like that of their noble counterparts , was in killing the quarry . Taking life was the male prerogative , paralleled in the inescapable function of warriors , whatever their period or ...
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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