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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... society for at least twelve hundred years . Hunting was 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 ...
... society for at least twelve hundred years . Hunting was 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 ...
Page 95
... society . The sumptuary laws of Edward III , enacted in 1363 , and of Edward IV , enacted in 1463,20 were another expression of the governing classes ' unease at an increasingly socially mobile commonalty . It is significant that these ...
... society . The sumptuary laws of Edward III , enacted in 1363 , and of Edward IV , enacted in 1463,20 were another expression of the governing classes ' unease at an increasingly socially mobile commonalty . It is significant that these ...
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... society . Unfortunately , owing to the almost complete lack of textual and pictorial evidence , it is difficult to apply this sort of conclusion to commonalty women and their roles in hunting . It seems likely that in European peasant ...
... society . Unfortunately , owing to the almost complete lack of textual and pictorial evidence , it is difficult to apply this sort of conclusion to commonalty women and their roles in hunting . It seems likely that in European peasant ...
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