In this paper, my aim is to consider the role of parks in the fifteenth century.
Power relations in the royal forests of England patronage : privilege and legitimacy in the reigns of Henry III and Edward I
May 28, 2014 By
The England of the Plantagenets (1189–1377) which honed the royal forest system was a typically medieval land. Its ultimate foundations lay upon the long established notion of the three estates: those who fought, those who prayed, and those who worked.
Hunting in Medieval literature: Satisfaction of Conquest or Thrill of Pursuit?
November 10, 2013 By
Hunting in Medieval literature: Satisfaction of Conquest or Thrill of Pursuit? Katherine Correa The Adelphi Honors College Journal of Ideas, Volume 11 (2011) Abstract In the medieval period, hunting was a pastime reserved exclusively for the nobility. While hunting in ancient civilizations was the primary way of obtaining food, furs, and other useful animal parts, […]
Jewish Hawking in Medieval France: Falconry, Rabbenu Tam, and the Tosafists
April 29, 2013 By
Falconry reached an apex in the Middle Ages and Renaissance periods, but in the modern era it was displaced to a great extent by the use of firearms. The present article explores the medieval Jewish knowledge of, and especially the exploitation of this technique, centered in twelfth-century Northern France in the communities surrounding the great master Tosafist, Rabbenu Tam.
Hunting and Hunters in Medieval Aragonese Legislation
March 18, 2013 By
Our research on hunting in the kingdom of Aragón in the 12th-15th centuries is based on the information provided by two groups of legal texts: those for local or regional areas and those that were applied to all the kingdom after the 13th century.
Beyond chicken: avian biodiversity in a Portuguese late medieval urban site
November 14, 2012 By
Between 2003 and 2004, prior to the construction of an underground parking in the Avenue Miguel Fernandes, an archaeological rescue excavation was carried out by a team of archaeologists from the company Crivarque…The excavations uncovered 137 silos, of which 109 were fully excavated. The high concentration of silos turned out to be the most striking find of the archaeological works.
Falconry in Jewish Art, Law, and Lore
September 23, 2012 By
When I explain that I am studying the topic of Falconry in Rabbinic Literature, people are usually bewildered, or just plain shocked. ‘Jewish hunting? Is that Kosher? Are there really any sources?’
Medieval Hunting and Fishing Practices and the Court Epics
September 15, 2012 By
Perhaps the best example of the medieval noble huntsman par excellence during the courtly age was that of Emperor Frederick II of Hohenstaufen.
Henry of Lancaster and Le Livre de Seyntz Medicines
July 15, 2012 By
Lancaster’s range of activities suggests the best elements of the fourteenth-century pattern of knighthood. This was rather more secular, both in theory and practice, than that which had inspired a thirteenth-century knight.
The Prince, the Park, and the Prey: Hunting in and around Milan in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
May 15, 2012 By
Cristina Arrigoni-Martelli of York University examines the efforts made by the Dukes of Milan during the later Middle Ages to take part in one of the most popular activities of European aristocrats – hunting.
The Court of Beast and Bough: Contesting the Medieval English Forest in the Early Robin Hood Ballads
May 6, 2012 By
The medieval English forest has long been a space of contested legal meanings. After King William I first created the 75,000-acre New Forest, the English monarchy sought to define the vert, both legally and ideologically, as a multiplicity of sites in which the king’s rights were vigorously enforced.
The Woodland Economy of Kent, 1066-1348
December 6, 2011 By
At the time of Domesday Book a great part of the county, perhaps a third, or even more, was tree clad, and while by the thirteenth century the proportion had fallen.
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