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 18
... sport on horseback , using a pack of hounds , could take all day and although ' sporting ' , only produced one carcass . Other methods had to be employed and the most effective was driving several , or sometimes many , deer at a time ...
... sport on horseback , using a pack of hounds , could take all day and although ' sporting ' , only produced one carcass . Other methods had to be employed and the most effective was driving several , or sometimes many , deer at a time ...
Page 39
... sport , notably the New Forest in Hampshire . The noble hunters , who had inherited or purchased legitimate rights , hunted as a form of recreation and military exercise.55 The sport of falconry , or hawking as it is more often called ...
... sport , notably the New Forest in Hampshire . The noble hunters , who had inherited or purchased legitimate rights , hunted as a form of recreation and military exercise.55 The sport of falconry , or hawking as it is more often called ...
Page 84
... sporting occasion was prostituted into one of slaughter and self - indulgence , the idea being to guarantee sport for royalty . Two paintings of the time illustrate the beginnings of this departure from true sport . The Stag Hunt of the ...
... sporting occasion was prostituted into one of slaughter and self - indulgence , the idea being to guarantee sport for royalty . Two paintings of the time illustrate the beginnings of this departure from true sport . The Stag Hunt of the ...
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