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 61
... source is consulted . Broadly , the quarry species which are illustrated in most pictorial sources and figure in almost all textual sources are the red deer stag or hart , the red deer hind , the hare , the wild boar , the wolf and the ...
... source is consulted . Broadly , the quarry species which are illustrated in most pictorial sources and figure in almost all textual sources are the red deer stag or hart , the red deer hind , the hare , the wild boar , the wolf and the ...
Page 73
... sources to this traditional method of hunting the stag , and to a lesser degree , the hare . The fallow deer , roebuck , boar , wolf , bear and fox , were also hunted by nobles in this manner . So , as with literature , members of the ...
... sources to this traditional method of hunting the stag , and to a lesser degree , the hare . The fallow deer , roebuck , boar , wolf , bear and fox , were also hunted by nobles in this manner . So , as with literature , members of the ...
Page 149
... sources frequently mention women hunting in classical antiquity , such as Theseus's Queen Hippolyta and her younger sister Emily in Chaucer's Knight's Tale21 and in Arthurian legend there is the lady who hunts accompanied only by women ...
... sources frequently mention women hunting in classical antiquity , such as Theseus's Queen Hippolyta and her younger sister Emily in Chaucer's Knight's Tale21 and in Arthurian legend there is the lady who hunts accompanied only by women ...
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