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 23
... status of rabbit hunters in question , so is their gender , and Queen Mary's Psalter shows peasant women taking rabbits at an artificial warren using ferrets and nets.55 Although rabbits were thus unusual as a quarry species in medieval ...
... status of rabbit hunters in question , so is their gender , and Queen Mary's Psalter shows peasant women taking rabbits at an artificial warren using ferrets and nets.55 Although rabbits were thus unusual as a quarry species in medieval ...
Page 59
... status – usually the very opposite in fact , greyhounds being associated in the public mind with the stereotypical ... status compared to the past . Another breed of hound , the possession of which conveyed the notion of gentlemanly ...
... status – usually the very opposite in fact , greyhounds being associated in the public mind with the stereotypical ... status compared to the past . Another breed of hound , the possession of which conveyed the notion of gentlemanly ...
Page 210
... status 58 ; low status 59 ; and Mary of Burgundy 158 ; Master of 18 ; poaching with 135 ; relays of 84 guaranteed sport 83 , 84 , 85 , 117 Guicenna ( n ) s 63 Gutenberg , Johann 91 Guy of Warwick 14 habitat decline 64-5 , 174 Hadamar 73 ...
... status 58 ; low status 59 ; and Mary of Burgundy 158 ; Master of 18 ; poaching with 135 ; relays of 84 guaranteed sport 83 , 84 , 85 , 117 Guicenna ( n ) s 63 Gutenberg , Johann 91 Guy of Warwick 14 habitat decline 64-5 , 174 Hadamar 73 ...
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