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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... social comment , which tells us that not only was late medieval society deeply divided into upper and lower strata ( common knowledge and hardly new ) but that medieval writers felt it was necessary to highlight the division between ...
... social comment , which tells us that not only was late medieval society deeply divided into upper and lower strata ( common knowledge and hardly new ) but that medieval writers felt it was necessary to highlight the division between ...
Page 115
... social background . The sons of yeomen , and lesser men , shared a common culture with aristocrats and gentlemen when they joined such an establishment . It was a way for the non - gentleman , and his son , to rise up the social scale ...
... social background . The sons of yeomen , and lesser men , shared a common culture with aristocrats and gentlemen when they joined such an establishment . It was a way for the non - gentleman , and his son , to rise up the social scale ...
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... social equality , as anyone who poached , be they noble , priest , peasant or woman , committed the same heinous crime within the legislative strictures of an aristocratic deer - hunting culture . The Forest Laws were the social ...
... social equality , as anyone who poached , be they noble , priest , peasant or woman , committed the same heinous crime within the legislative strictures of an aristocratic deer - hunting culture . The Forest Laws were the social ...
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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