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 28
... regarded as a privilege of the ruling classes and restrictions on gratuitous hunting were initiated by European monarchs in the early medieval period . On the continent , the hunting rights of free men began to be replaced by extended ...
... regarded as a privilege of the ruling classes and restrictions on gratuitous hunting were initiated by European monarchs in the early medieval period . On the continent , the hunting rights of free men began to be replaced by extended ...
Page 79
... regarded in France as the personal responsibility of a noble . However , these ceremonies of French aristocratic hunting did not become fully established in Germany until the sixteenth or even seventeenth centuries . By then , many ...
... regarded in France as the personal responsibility of a noble . However , these ceremonies of French aristocratic hunting did not become fully established in Germany until the sixteenth or even seventeenth centuries . By then , many ...
Page 152
... regarded by aristocratic medieval hunters , both male and female , as a ' secret ' and erotic symbol . Deer are ungulates and have cloven feet , each of which is referred to as a ' slot ' . Prints of deer in soft ground are still called ...
... regarded by aristocratic medieval hunters , both male and female , as a ' secret ' and erotic symbol . Deer are ungulates and have cloven feet , each of which is referred to as a ' slot ' . Prints of deer in soft ground are still called ...
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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