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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... term covered more than the modern , legally defined game birds and animals . It was to some extent , therefore , a more generic term than it is today or has been for several centuries . The aristocratic medieval hunter's division of ...
... term covered more than the modern , legally defined game birds and animals . It was to some extent , therefore , a more generic term than it is today or has been for several centuries . The aristocratic medieval hunter's division of ...
Page 86
... term : in this month there must be watch and ward kept with men and weapons for the fence and defence of wild beasts , for that reason the same is called fence or defence month.118 The use of the term ' fawning ' , rather than ' calving ...
... term : in this month there must be watch and ward kept with men and weapons for the fence and defence of wild beasts , for that reason the same is called fence or defence month.118 The use of the term ' fawning ' , rather than ' calving ...
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... term ' sportsman ' , which is used in a complimentary way . The equivalent term in the medieval Middle German manuals is ' Weidmann ' , 121 indicating an attitude of decent consideration for the quarry and other hunters , and of general ...
... term ' sportsman ' , which is used in a complimentary way . The equivalent term in the medieval Middle German manuals is ' Weidmann ' , 121 indicating an attitude of decent consideration for the quarry and other hunters , and of general ...
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