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The Art of Medieval Hunting
John G. Cummins
其他書名
The Hound and the Hawk
出版Castle Books, 2003
主題History / WorldHistory / Europe / MedievalHistory / Social HistorySports & Recreation / Hunting
ISBN07858159299780785815921
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=qkDYxipafCkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The gentlemen of medieval and Renaissance Europe had three all-consuming passions: warfare, courtly love, and hunting with a hawk or hound -- and the philosophy behind the last of the trio really encompasses them all. Hunting, the sport of kings, served as training for battle, a rite of manhood, and a powerful ritualistic pastime. In vivid and engrossing detail, here are all the appropriate methods for hunting deer, boar, wolves, foxes, bears, otters, birds, hares . . . even unicorns! A dazzling diversity of sources (poems, ballads, letters, court directives, royal accounts, gamekeepers' handbooks, psalters) illustrate how hunting and hawking appear throughout medieval art and literature as metaphors and motifs for everything from romance to combat.