ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |19 pages
Introduction
chapter |17 pages
Introduction
part |76 pages
The Game
chapter |24 pages
Fébusian Bestiary
chapter |24 pages
Noble and Ignoble Endings
chapter |25 pages
Post-Mortem Products
part |65 pages
The Hound
chapter |20 pages
Types of Hunting Dogs
chapter |18 pages
Daily Care and Training of Hunting Dogs
chapter |24 pages
Canine Ailments, Old Age, and Death
part |61 pages
The Hunter
part |6 pages
Conclusion