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 102
... show two commonalty methods of taking hares . ' Hare driving with bells ' is a cunning technique in which a long - net is ... shows the manufacture of snares , running nooses and nets from rope , together with an explanation of method ...
... show two commonalty methods of taking hares . ' Hare driving with bells ' is a cunning technique in which a long - net is ... shows the manufacture of snares , running nooses and nets from rope , together with an explanation of method ...
Page 107
... shows a wolf hanging from a wooden beam . The precursor to this would be as follows : having been guided by portable wattle fencing to the bait , which was laid within a rope noose tied to a pivoting beam , the wolf has taken the bait ...
... shows a wolf hanging from a wooden beam . The precursor to this would be as follows : having been guided by portable wattle fencing to the bait , which was laid within a rope noose tied to a pivoting beam , the wolf has taken the bait ...
Page 109
... shows a group of peasants using ferrets and purse - nets to take rabbits in a warren . The men are setting nets over bolt - holes and extracting netted rabbits while their womenfolk assist by handing them equipment and pointing to newly ...
... shows a group of peasants using ferrets and purse - nets to take rabbits in a warren . The men are setting nets over bolt - holes and extracting netted rabbits while their womenfolk assist by handing them equipment and pointing to newly ...
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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