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Book Hunting in Middle English Literature

Download or read book Hunting in Middle English Literature written by Anne Rooney and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1993 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the hunt, its imagery and allusion, in Middle English literature.

Book Hunting Law and Ritual in Medieval English Literature

Download or read book Hunting Law and Ritual in Medieval English Literature written by William Perry Marvin and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2006 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of hunting as it appears both in didactic texts, and epic and romance.

Book L Art de venerie

Download or read book L Art de venerie written by William Twiti and published by Universitatsverlag Winter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the first scholarly edition of a little-known fifteenth-century translation of William Twiti's Anglo-Norman prose treatise on hunting, 'L 'art de venerie', the earliest manual on the sport to be composed in England. The text in question, extant in a single manuscript held in a private collection in Ashton-under-Lyne, is far superior to the only other Middle English translation of Twiti's treatise that has hitherto been known to scholars: the amplified, but debased and at times incoherent, version found in BL, MS Cotton Vespasian B XII; it is also a far more accurate rendition of Twiti's Anglo-Norman original than the much altered redaction known as 'The Craft of Venery', a text that has recently become confused with Twiti's treatise. Former editors of Twiti's work, such as Gunnar Tilander and Bror Danielsson, were unaware of the existence of the Ashton translation, and therefore founded their editions on the Cottonian text or 'The Craft of Venery', both of which are problematic in a number of ways. In this volume, the Ashton translation is printed opposite a parallel Anglo-French text edited from Gonville and Caius College MS 424/448, and is followed by freshly corrected editions of the amplified Cottonian text and 'The Craft of Venery'. All three texts are provided with their own comprehensive notes, complemented by an integrated glossary that improves on many definitions currently in the 'Oxford English Dictionary' and the 'Middle English Dictionary'.

Book Hunting Weapons

Download or read book Hunting Weapons written by Howard L. Blackmore and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed, comprehensive account of swords, knives and bayonets, staff weapons, bows, crossbows, guns and other miscellaneous arms — dating from the Middle Ages to modern times. Over 280 contemporary illustrations catalog the spear of a Roman hunter, a medieval broad arrow, a harpoon gun fired by whalers, and much else.

Book In the Manner of the Franks

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric J. Goldberg
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2020-10-16
  • ISBN : 0812252357
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book In the Manner of the Franks written by Eric J. Goldberg and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric J. Goldberg traces the long history of early medieval hunting from the late Roman Empire to the death of the last Carolingian king, Louis V, in a hunting accident in 987. He focuses chiefly on elite men and the changing role that hunting played in articulating kingship, status, and manhood in the post-Roman world. While hunting was central to elite lifestyles throughout these centuries, the Carolingians significantly altered this aristocratic activity in the later eighth and ninth centuries by making it a key symbol of Frankish kingship and political identity. This new connection emerged under Charlemagne, reached its high point under his son and heir Louis the Pious, and continued under Louis's immediate successors. Indeed, the emphasis on hunting as a badge of royal power and Frankishness would prove to be among the Carolingians' most significant and lasting legacies. Goldberg draws on written sources such as chronicles, law codes, charters, hagiography, and poetry as well as artistic and archaeological evidence to explore the changing nature of early medieval hunting and its connections to politics and society. Featuring more than sixty illustrations of hunting imagery found in mosaics, stone sculpture, metalwork, and illuminated manuscripts, In the Manner of the Franks portrays a vibrant and dynamic culture that encompassed red deer and wild boar hunting, falconry, ritualized behavior, female spectatorship, and complex forms of specialized knowledge that united kings and nobles in a shared political culture, thus locating the origins of courtly hunting in the early Middle Ages.

Book Book and Verse

    Book Details:
  • Author : James H. Morey
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780252025075
  • Pages : 462 pages

Download or read book Book and Verse written by James H. Morey and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Book and Verse is guide to the variety and extent of biblical literature in England, exclusive of drama and the Wycliffite Bible, that appeared between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries. Entries provide detailed information on how much of what parts of the Bible appear in Middle English and where this biblical material can be found."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The Master of Game

Download or read book The Master of Game written by Edward (of Norwich) and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hunt in Middle English Romance

Download or read book The Hunt in Middle English Romance written by Anthony Flemming-Blake and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Middle English Literature

Download or read book Middle English Literature written by Matthew Boyd Goldie and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century documents is designed for students of Chaucer and Middle English literature. It makes readily available accounts of key historical events and descriptions of pertinent cultural phenomena. Brings together in one volume fourteenth- and fifteenth-century historical and cultural texts. Documents shed light on the themes and styles that appear in Chaucer and other Middle English literature. Contains twelve important images from the period. Concise introductions and bibliographies accompany all documents.

Book Nature in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Times

Download or read book Nature in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Times written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of pre-modern anthropology requires the close examination of the relationship between nature and human society, which has been both precarious and threatening as well as productive, soothing, inviting, and pleasurable. Much depends on the specific circumstances, as the works by philosophers, theologians, poets, artists, and medical practitioners have regularly demonstrated. It would not be good enough, as previous scholarship has commonly done, to examine simply what the various writers or artists had to say about nature. While modern scientists consider just the hard-core data of the objective world, cultural historians and literary scholars endeavor to comprehend the deeper meaning of the concept of nature presented by countless writers and artists. Only when we have a good grasp of the interactions between people and their natural environment, are we in a position to identify and interpret mental structures, social and economic relationships, medical and scientific concepts of human health, and the messages about all existence as depicted in major art works. In light of the current conditions threatening to bring upon us a global crisis, it matters centrally to take into consideration pre-modern discourses on nature and its enormous powers to understand the topoi and tropes determining the concepts through which we perceive nature. Nature thus proves to be a force far beyond all human comprehensibility, being both material and spiritual depending on our critical approaches.

Book Medieval Life and Leisure in the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries

Download or read book Medieval Life and Leisure in the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries written by Linda Woolley and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four magnificent Devonshire Tapestries housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum are the only great 15th-century tapestries to survive the ravages of time. This book is a celebration of them and offers a unique insight into the world of the late Middle Ages in rich and fascinating detail.

Book The Hunting Book of Gaston Ph  bus

Download or read book The Hunting Book of Gaston Ph bus written by and published by [This edition published 2002 by] Hackberry Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Medieval Hunting

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Almond
  • Publisher : The History Press
  • Release : 2011-10-24
  • ISBN : 0752474626
  • Pages : 269 pages

Download or read book Medieval Hunting written by Richard Almond and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunting was a major economic and leisure activity throughout the later European Middle Ages, but while aristocratic practices have featured in studies of romantic and narrative literature, hunting in its wider sense across the social spectrum and 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 surrounding hunting, including the persistent views that it was exclusively an aristocratic, male pursuit. Using a wide variety of contemporary textual and art historical evidence, Richard Almond shows that hunting, including fishing and poaching, was enjoyed by women as well as men.

Book An Environmental History of the Middle Ages

Download or read book An Environmental History of the Middle Ages written by John Aberth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle Ages was a critical and formative time for Western approaches to our natural surroundings. An Environmental History of the Middle Ages is a unique and unprecedented cultural survey of attitudes towards the environment during this period. Exploring the entire medieval period from 500 to 1500, and ranging across the whole of Europe, from England and Spain to the Baltic and Eastern Europe, John Aberth focuses his study on three key areas: the natural elements of air, water, and earth; the forest; and wild and domestic animals. Through this multi-faceted lens, An Environmental History of the Middle Ages sheds fascinating new light on the medieval environmental mindset. It will be essential reading for students, scholars and all those interested in the Middle Ages

Book The Boundaries of the Human in Medieval English Literature

Download or read book The Boundaries of the Human in Medieval English Literature written by Dorothy Yamamoto and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyzes the fear of beastly transformation that recurs throughout Medieval literature. Yamamoto explores how humans envisioned animals with human characteristics in bestiaries and literatures that involve aspects of the hunt and heraldry. Minor texts, as well as major works likeChaucer's "Knight's Tale," are investigated. Additionally, she explores both examples of humans changing into animal form and those that hover enigmatically between species as wild men and women. Investigating this topic, she looks to Alexander romances, the poetry of Gower, and othersources.

Book The Kings and Their Hawks

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robin S. Oggins
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2004-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300100587
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book The Kings and Their Hawks written by Robin S. Oggins and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the equivalent of polo-playing today, the sport of falconry was the preserve of the wealthy and royalty, regarded as both a suitable and enjoyable leisure activity, and as a source of status and prestige.

Book Chaucer s England

Download or read book Chaucer s England written by Barbara Hanawalt and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Represents the first time that disciples of history and English literature have joined forces to present new interpretations of late fourteenth-century English society.