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 129
... poachers possessing bercelets.55 Now the hunter abandons gentlemanly procedures . Knowing that the slaying was a ... poachers and poaching was minimal . Laws are only effective if they can be properly enforced and lone poaching was , and ...
... poachers possessing bercelets.55 Now the hunter abandons gentlemanly procedures . Knowing that the slaying was a ... poachers and poaching was minimal . Laws are only effective if they can be properly enforced and lone poaching was , and ...
Page 134
... poachers included clerks and scholars who took deer , hares and conies with dogs and greyhounds in many warrens ... poaching . Their poaching was not only more serious in terms of quantities of venison taken ; it also set a bad example ...
... poachers included clerks and scholars who took deer , hares and conies with dogs and greyhounds in many warrens ... poaching . Their poaching was not only more serious in terms of quantities of venison taken ; it also set a bad example ...
Page 138
... poachers of high or ecclesiastical rank appear to have been forgiven or discharged without payment more often than humble illegal hunters . The seminal fact is that members of all classes were undoubtedly involved in poaching and the ...
... poachers of high or ecclesiastical rank appear to have been forgiven or discharged without payment more often than humble illegal hunters . The seminal fact is that members of all classes were undoubtedly involved in poaching and the ...
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