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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... warren , unaware of the ferret or pole - cat about to enter a burrow . Peasants with ferrets and purse - nets working a warren . Contrasts in hunting quarry and methodology carved on a misericord : the central theme is the stag hunt but ...
... warren , unaware of the ferret or pole - cat about to enter a burrow . Peasants with ferrets and purse - nets working a warren . Contrasts in hunting quarry and methodology carved on a misericord : the central theme is the stag hunt but ...
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... warren and husbanded conies because of the considerable revenue which their meat and fur generated . Not surprisingly , the element of hunting snobbery was not seen to be at odds with the opportunity to profit from farming these small ...
... warren and husbanded conies because of the considerable revenue which their meat and fur generated . Not surprisingly , the element of hunting snobbery was not seen to be at odds with the opportunity to profit from farming these small ...
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... warren . The men are setting nets over bolt - holes and extracting netted rabbits while their womenfolk assist by handing them equipment and pointing to newly caught conies.93 Although a great magnate , Gaston Fébus did not ignore the ...
... warren . The men are setting nets over bolt - holes and extracting netted rabbits while their womenfolk assist by handing them equipment and pointing to newly caught conies.93 Although a great magnate , Gaston Fébus did not ignore the ...
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