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 46
... professional falconer in the mews of the lord.81 This leaves the ' powere man ' with his goshawk tiercel , a bird of less weight and power , of lesser status than the female and even more difficult to man . The author of the list is ...
... professional falconer in the mews of the lord.81 This leaves the ' powere man ' with his goshawk tiercel , a bird of less weight and power , of lesser status than the female and even more difficult to man . The author of the list is ...
Page 51
... professional staff , was required to dress up accordingly and in the height of current hunting fashion , but for most hunting and hawking forays the mode of dress was probably less elaborate , more practical and certainly less expensive ...
... professional staff , was required to dress up accordingly and in the height of current hunting fashion , but for most hunting and hawking forays the mode of dress was probably less elaborate , more practical and certainly less expensive ...
Page 169
... professional men and aristocratic hunters . Stealing venison and other game was the illicit vehicle of social ... professionals on foot , pursuing the quarry with hounds along a stream valley by the edge of a forest . Horns are being ...
... professional men and aristocratic hunters . Stealing venison and other game was the illicit vehicle of social ... professionals on foot , pursuing the quarry with hounds along a stream valley by the edge of a forest . Horns are being ...
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