A01=Richard Almond
Author_Richard Almond
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fishing
hunting
later european middle ages
medieval leisure
medieval pastime
medieval societies
middle ages
nature
poaching
Product details
- ISBN 9780750921626
- Dimensions: 172 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2007
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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. This book aims to dispel some of the myths and misunderstandings about hunting, including the view that it was chiefly an aristocratic pursuit, and a male one at that.
Richard Almond is course leade in history at Darlington College a college of Teeside University, where he is in charge of the BA History programme. He has written numerous articles on medieval hunting for Deer: The Journal of the British Deer Society, Medieval History and Medium Aevum.
