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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... wild boar to liming sticks on branches to catch songbirds and netting sparrows . Supplementing and varying the basic ... wild boar . He tells how a wild boar raided a farmer's orchard and was trapped in a pit , the entrance to which had ...
... wild boar to liming sticks on branches to catch songbirds and netting sparrows . Supplementing and varying the basic ... wild boar . He tells how a wild boar raided a farmer's orchard and was trapped in a pit , the entrance to which had ...
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... wild and be hunted . These medieval warrens represented almost the sole source of rabbits in England and it was not until the eighteenth century that the animals spread successfully in the wild , notably in the easily excavated sandy ...
... wild and be hunted . These medieval warrens represented almost the sole source of rabbits in England and it was not until the eighteenth century that the animals spread successfully in the wild , notably in the easily excavated sandy ...
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... wild boar . The boar hunt is mentioned or described in MHG [ Middle High German ] sources much less frequently than ... wild boar the most dangerous quarry , admiring and respecting the fierceness of the beast.27 The Master of Game ...
... wild boar . The boar hunt is mentioned or described in MHG [ Middle High German ] sources much less frequently than ... wild boar the most dangerous quarry , admiring and respecting the fierceness of the beast.27 The Master of Game ...
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