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 108
... rabbits were naturally one of the main targets of commonalty hunters and a number of appropriate and effective netting techniques had evolved since the Norman Conquest for catching them . The line drawing in Queen Mary's Psalter of ...
... rabbits were naturally one of the main targets of commonalty hunters and a number of appropriate and effective netting techniques had evolved since the Norman Conquest for catching them . The line drawing in Queen Mary's Psalter of ...
Page 109
... rabbit as he knew its value . The MS fr . 616 version of Livre de chasse includes a chapter on the nature of rabbits , accompanied by a delightful illustration of rabbits and their warren . Fébus advises that if one wants good sport , ...
... rabbit as he knew its value . The MS fr . 616 version of Livre de chasse includes a chapter on the nature of rabbits , accompanied by a delightful illustration of rabbits and their warren . Fébus advises that if one wants good sport , ...
Page 110
... Rabbit Hunt , the central feature of which is a nun writing at a lectern . The right supporter is of a hunter , with a dead rabbit on a pole over his shoulder , who is using a ferret or possibly a polecat , to flush rabbits from a ...
... Rabbit Hunt , the central feature of which is a nun writing at a lectern . The right supporter is of a hunter , with a dead rabbit on a pole over his shoulder , who is using a ferret or possibly a polecat , to flush rabbits from a ...
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