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 62
... red deer hind , but David Dalby comments as an aside to German stag - hunting practice that ' Hinds were sometimes hunted with hounds , and were usually driven into nets rather than pursued across country'.6 Hinds gave inferior sport to ...
... red deer hind , but David Dalby comments as an aside to German stag - hunting practice that ' Hinds were sometimes hunted with hounds , and were usually driven into nets rather than pursued across country'.6 Hinds gave inferior sport to ...
Page 65
... red deer in the royal game reserves in the north of England had dwindled to around two thousand . In southern England it was necessary to boost low numbers by breeding programmes in parks . Stags are notoriously aggressive during the ...
... red deer in the royal game reserves in the north of England had dwindled to around two thousand . In southern England it was necessary to boost low numbers by breeding programmes in parks . Stags are notoriously aggressive during the ...
Page 86
... red deer , the latter's numbers being in decline by the end of the Tudor period . This tradition of imposing the fence month continued for centuries in England , C.J. Cornish commenting in 1895 : ' Defense de chasser ' is probably the ...
... red deer , the latter's numbers being in decline by the end of the Tudor period . This tradition of imposing the fence month continued for centuries in England , C.J. Cornish commenting in 1895 : ' Defense de chasser ' is probably the ...
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