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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.
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John Cummins was born in Hull, and educated at the University of Manchester. He gained his Ph.D. at the University of Aberdeen, and is currently Reader in Spanish there. He lives in Aberdeen.
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- PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0312027168
- ISBN 13 9780312027162
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages306
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. B00K: As New/ 1988 (illustrator). 1st Edition. B00K: As New/ $30.12 0312027168 the HOUND and the HAWK: the ART of MEDIEVAL HUNTING CUMMINS, John ST. MARTIN'S PRESS 1988 1sT American Edition Sun Bleaching Into A Mostly Green Pictorial Spine, With Title In Green And Brown Letters In A Light Brown Box, Dust Jacket: Fine/, Slight Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. Hard Cover BooK: As New/, Minutest Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. 306 Numbered Pages In New/ Condition, That Appear To Lightly Read, And Are Clean And Tight To The Spine, Slight Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. Printed On Off White Paper. SYNOPSIS: Hunting was a training for war and a rite of manhood, a powerful and ritualistic pastime, the sport of kings. Description Applies To This BooK, Only. This BooK Is Hard To Find, Will Be Packaged And Shipped Carefully, To Avoid Shipping Damage And Will Make It, An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection, Or As A Gift. World Wide Shipping, Available. Seller Inventory # 010134
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