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 49
... manuscript , the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berri . In this , the second lady rider is particularly sumptuously dressed in a blue houppelande with gold decoration , and a white headdress , her horse caparisoned with a scarlet and gold ...
... manuscript , the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berri . In this , the second lady rider is particularly sumptuously dressed in a blue houppelande with gold decoration , and a white headdress , her horse caparisoned with a scarlet and gold ...
Page 91
... manuscript had been given very specific guidance about at least some of its desired contents.'4 This manuscript is a unique record of everyday life on the Luttrell estate at Irnham in Lincolnshire in the early fourteenth century . As ...
... manuscript had been given very specific guidance about at least some of its desired contents.'4 This manuscript is a unique record of everyday life on the Luttrell estate at Irnham in Lincolnshire in the early fourteenth century . As ...
Page 106
... manuscripts , and this bird in Roy Modus appears to be the common , or dark- necked pheasant , a variety regarded as ... manuscript.80 The wild boar was a particular and dangerous nuisance to farmers in the Middle Ages and indeed still ...
... manuscripts , and this bird in Roy Modus appears to be the common , or dark- necked pheasant , a variety regarded as ... manuscript.80 The wild boar was a particular and dangerous nuisance to farmers in the Middle Ages and indeed still ...
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