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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... venison . The dates of the royal orders to obtain venison are interesting in that they point to the high value of fresh fat venison , even in the summer months when agricultural food production should have been approaching its maximum .
... venison . The dates of the royal orders to obtain venison are interesting in that they point to the high value of fresh fat venison , even in the summer months when agricultural food production should have been approaching its maximum .
Page 134
... venison to the forester - tenants . When a calf , fawn , roe - kid or any other deer was killed on his stead , the forester - tenant had to find the slayer or else pay the penalty himself.78 In the fifteenth century , the fine for the ...
... venison to the forester - tenants . When a calf , fawn , roe - kid or any other deer was killed on his stead , the forester - tenant had to find the slayer or else pay the penalty himself.78 In the fifteenth century , the fine for the ...
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... venison , was to take such trespassing beasts as best one could . Thus , a husband and wife from Sowerby despatched ... venison , a ' passive ' crime and a marginal element of peasant hunting . Rose Glade of Arnold was convicted of ...
... venison , was to take such trespassing beasts as best one could . Thus , a husband and wife from Sowerby despatched ... venison , a ' passive ' crime and a marginal element of peasant hunting . Rose Glade of Arnold was convicted of ...
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animals aristocratic hunting Art of Hunting beast birds Birrell British Library Calendar carcass century chapter chase common commonalty hunting Dalby dress Egerton England English falcon falconry fallow deer female ferrets fifteenth-century Forest Laws Gaston Fébus gentle hunters German Gottfried von Strassburg greyhounds H & H hare hart horse horseback hounds hunt establishment hunt servants Hunters and Poachers hunting and hawking hunting books hunting manuals huntsman Ibid illustrations knight ladies late medieval later Middle Ages Livre de chasse London Luttrell Psalter manuscript Master of Game Maurice Keen Maximilian medieval hunting methods misericords nets Nicholas Orme nobility noble numbers particularly pastime peasant Pisanello poaching practice probably quarry species Queen Mary's Psalter rabbits rank red deer repr ritual Roy Modus royal Saint Albans social society sources sport stag hunt status tapestry Tilander Tretyse off Huntyng Tristan Twiti venery veneur venison warren wild boar wolf women