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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... Peasants trapping squirrels . A peasant netting a small covey of partridge . Peasants catching larks with a bell and nets . The ultimate in camouflage ? Catching woodcock a la folletoere . A peasant netting a small bird using a draw ...
... Peasants trapping squirrels . A peasant netting a small covey of partridge . Peasants catching larks with a bell and nets . The ultimate in camouflage ? Catching woodcock a la folletoere . A peasant netting a small bird using a draw ...
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... peasant hunters and their success . Finally , the picture is one of great contrasts : the dejection of the hunters returning from the hunt , a complex occupation which is especially problematic in the winter , with the simple pleasures ...
... peasant hunters and their success . Finally , the picture is one of great contrasts : the dejection of the hunters returning from the hunt , a complex occupation which is especially problematic in the winter , with the simple pleasures ...
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... peasant role . A fifteenth - century Burgundian tapestry of peasants ferreting rabbits clearly shows this demarcation of roles based upon gender : the men net and despatch rabbits while their women serve as able assistants.84 However ...
... peasant role . A fifteenth - century Burgundian tapestry of peasants ferreting rabbits clearly shows this demarcation of roles based upon gender : the men net and despatch rabbits while their women serve as able assistants.84 However ...
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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