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 29
... present an authentic public face of aristocratic values in order to legitimise their place in society . Naturally , as occurred in the fourteenth century with the Edwardian revival of chivalry , these ambitious men turned to the past ...
... present an authentic public face of aristocratic values in order to legitimise their place in society . Naturally , as occurred in the fourteenth century with the Edwardian revival of chivalry , these ambitious men turned to the past ...
Page 73
... present a comprehensive and detailed reconstruction of this method of hunting . Similar sequences , using slightly differing terminology owing to distinct linguistic sources , can be found in two recent works , The Stag of Love and The ...
... present a comprehensive and detailed reconstruction of this method of hunting . Similar sequences , using slightly differing terminology owing to distinct linguistic sources , can be found in two recent works , The Stag of Love and The ...
Page 153
... present at the climactic ritual of unmaking and therefore qualified for a specific piece of the carcass to which no other group was entitled . What is not clear , and is almost impossible to substantiate , is whether these ladies had ...
... present at the climactic ritual of unmaking and therefore qualified for a specific piece of the carcass to which no other group was entitled . What is not clear , and is almost impossible to substantiate , is whether these ladies had ...
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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