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 145
... women seem to have been a favourite target for male satire in medieval manuscript margins and other pictorial sources . Again like hares , women often feature in ' world upside - down ' misericords , having the characteristics of Eve ...
... women seem to have been a favourite target for male satire in medieval manuscript margins and other pictorial sources . Again like hares , women often feature in ' world upside - down ' misericords , having the characteristics of Eve ...
Page 146
... women in forms other than those which they deserved or were entitled to . Of course , there is a temptation to accept illustrative evidence too readily as being a true record of reality and actual practice . No doubt many , if not most ...
... women in forms other than those which they deserved or were entitled to . Of course , there is a temptation to accept illustrative evidence too readily as being a true record of reality and actual practice . No doubt many , if not most ...
Page 160
... women in the two previous examples . The sequence portrays a male falconer flying his pair of falcons at winged quarry and then presenting the prey to his lady . Two other ladies , apparently of lower rank , pluck the bird and the ...
... women in the two previous examples . The sequence portrays a male falconer flying his pair of falcons at winged quarry and then presenting the prey to his lady . Two other ladies , apparently of lower rank , pluck the bird and the ...
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