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' - sprinkled with interesting nuggets - ' Saul David, Sunday Telegraph ' - brings to light the most overlooked hunters of the Middle Ages - women.' Medieval History ' - it is salutary to read a book that reveals hunting in medieval times to have been central to the lives of all classes, and enjoyed by all three estates and both sexes.' Saul David, Sunday Telegraph 'Almond gives good consideration to hunting beyond aristocratic and courtly posturing.' The Times Literary Supplement ' - an absolutely engrossing and fascinating account - ' The Field
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Hunting was a major economic and leisure activity throughout the European Middle Ages, and while aristocratic practices have featured in studies of romantic and narrative literature, hunting in its wider sense, across the social spectrum with attendant male and female roles, has largely been ignored by modern medieval historians. Richard Almond's study brings vividly to life the universality and centrality of hunting to medieval societies, both as an economic necessity and as an expression of medieval humanity's almost atavistic sense of oneness with nature. Medieval Hunting dispels some of the myths and misunderstandings about hunting, including the persistent view that it was exclusively an aristocratic pursuit and a male one at that. Using a wide variety of contemporary textual and art historical evidence, Richard Almond demonstrates convincingly that hunting, including fishing and all manner of poaching, was enjoyed by all classes, and by women as well as men.
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The Medieval Hunt Explored
19 Oct 2003
Format:Hardcover
If you are familiar with Cummins "Hound and Hawk", this book is an excellent companion. It broadens Cummins exploritaries into the "whys" and "reasons" and gives further light to the "whos" and "hows".
If you are not familiar with Cummins, this book is an excellent primer into the world of the medieval hunt. It explores a broad expanse of the world of the medieval hunt including the notions of the nobility as well as the peasantry and touching (teasingly!) on female participation. It covers many of the "accepted" techniques of the gentleman as well as some of the more "wiley" practices of the peasant poacher.
Over all, I found this to be a well rounded and informative study with ample illustrations and a generous bibliography for the serious student or amature historian.
If you are not familiar with Cummins, this book is an excellent primer into the world of the medieval hunt. It explores a broad expanse of the world of the medieval hunt including the notions of the nobility as well as the peasantry and touching (teasingly!) on female participation. It covers many of the "accepted" techniques of the gentleman as well as some of the more "wiley" practices of the peasant poacher.
Over all, I found this to be a well rounded and informative study with ample illustrations and a generous bibliography for the serious student or amature historian.
Not well illustrated
13 Jan 2012
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I was hoping for rather more illustrations on the subject than the few coloured inserts that were provided, but the book itself is well written and useful.
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