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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... picture of the period than black - and - white photographs of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries which inevitably conjure up images of a dull , drab , monochrome world . The medieval world was none of these things ; the pictorial ...
... picture of the period than black - and - white photographs of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries which inevitably conjure up images of a dull , drab , monochrome world . The medieval world was none of these things ; the pictorial ...
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... picture for August in the early fifteenth - century 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 ...
... picture for August in the early fifteenth - century 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 ...
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... picture a knight without one ' . He also quotes a supposedly old law of King Canute which decreed that a greyhound may not be kept by any person inferior ( in rank ) to a gentleman.127 However , this use of the term ' gentleman ' seems ...
... picture a knight without one ' . He also quotes a supposedly old law of King Canute which decreed that a greyhound may not be kept by any person inferior ( in rank ) to a gentleman.127 However , this use of the term ' gentleman ' seems ...
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