Animals and hunters in the late Middle Ages
Subtitle: evidence from the BnF MS fr. 616 of the Livre de chasse by Gaston Fébus
By: Hannele Klemettilä
Series: Routledge research in museum studies -- 9
Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781138842335; 9781315731414
Subjects: Hunting; History; Human-animal relationships; Hunters; Hunting dogs; Social life and customs; HISTORY / Medieval; HISTORY / Europe / General; HISTORY / Social History
Description: "This book explores views of the natural world in the late Middle Ages, especially as expressed in Livre de chasse (Book of the Hunt), the most influential hunting book of the era. It shows that killing and maiming, suffering and the death of animals were not insignificant topics to late medieval men, but constituted a complex set of issues, and could provoke very contradictory thoughts and feelings that varied according social and cultural milieus and particular cases and circumstances"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-241) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Introduction; title: Part II. The Game; title: Fébusian Bestiary; title: Noble and Ignoble Endings; title: Post-Mortem Products; title: Part III. The Hound; title: Types of Hunting Dogs; title: Daily Care and Training of Hunting Dogs; title: Canine Ailments, Old Age, and Death; title: Part IV. The Hunter; title: The Career of a Huntsman; title: A Path to Paradise : Goals and Benefits of Hunting; title: The Good Hunter; title: Part V. Conclusion.