Khohchahar Chuluu, Encircling Mongolia: Institutional structures and socio-political implications Memoirs of Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (2017
The Mongolian collective hunting style was known as aba or the encircling, which differed from individual hunting. This was not just a warlike cooperative activity to kill the game but constituted a social institution.
Rebekah Pratt-Sturges: Illuminating Medieval Hunting: Power and Performance In Gaston Febus Le livre de chasse Ph.D. Dissertation Arizona State University 2017,
MS. fr., Bibliotheque nationale de France is decorated with vivid illuminations depicting the aristocratic hunting, in 1389.
The Tale of Gamelyn and Medium Adevum by Alex Davis. 85:1 (2016)
This article examines how the tale dynamics can be brought into sharp relief when it is inserted into the late medieval culture.
Shawn Hale, Carved Stones, and Butchered Bones: Hunting in Late Saxon England. Thesis of Eastern Illinois University.
The late Saxon lords created hunting grounds, fortified manorial centers, and parishes, where they erected stone memorial sculptures.
The dynamics of fallow-deer management in medieval England, (c. 11th-16th AD) STAR: Science & Technology of Archaeological Research Vol. 2:1 (2016)
This paper presents the results of the first comprehensive study of fallow deer. A non-native species whose introduction to Britain during the medieval period transformed the cultural landscape.
Cristina Arrigoni Martelli. Deer and Ducks, Profit and Pleasure. Hunters, Games, and the Natural Landscapes in Medieval Italy. Ph.D. Dissertation. York University. 2015
This dissertation provides a thorough and comprehensive assessment of hunting during the Renaissance and late medieval periods in northern and central Italy.
Richard Swinney, Scott Crawford, Medieval Hunting As Training For War Insights For The Modern Swordsman Acta Periodica duellatorum Vol.2:1 (2015)
Hunting (the pursuit of the large game using dogs, swords or spears, and bows) has been a popular method of preparing men for war since antiquity. This type of hunting develops a different set of skills than the standard Western Martial Arts. Hunting wild boars with medieval weapons and techniques is still legal in the United States. This provides insight into swordsmanship that you can’t find anywhere else.
Frode Iversen: The name of Frode’s game! The changing role of hunting in Norway in the Middle Ages. Hunting in Northern Europe until 1500 AD. Old traditions and regional development, continental sources, and continental influences.
This article argues the changes in property structure, from clustered systems of estates in the Early Middle Ages (to more scattered systems of estates in the Late Middle Ages), are an indicator of the decreased importance of hunting in the royal household’s economy during the Middle Ages.
Fiona Beglane: Parks and Deer-Hunting in Medieval Ireland Ph.D. Dissertation. National University of Ireland Galway, 2012.
This thesis explores the hunting culture in Ireland during the later medieval period. It focuses on Anglo-Norman Ireland from 1169 until c.1350. The focus of the thesis is deer hunting and parks where fallow deer can be kept.
Ryan Russell Judkins. Nobility Venery: Hunting and the Aristocratic Imagination of Late Medieval English Literature. Ph.D. Dissertation. Ohio State University.
This thesis explores hunting as the main leisure activity of the English aristocracy in medieval literature.
Katherine Correa, Hunters in Medieval Literature: Thrill of Pursuit or Satisfaction of Conquest? The Adelphi Honors College Journal of Ideas Vol. 11 (2011)
Hunting was an exclusive pastime of the nobility in the medieval period. In ancient civilizations, hunting was the main way to obtain food, furs, and other useful parts of animals. However, among medieval nobles, hunting was seen as a sport that was exciting and a form of entertainment.
Olgierd and Piotr Lawrynowicz, Hunting weapons and equipment in medieval iconography Fasciculi Archaeologiae Historical Vol. 22 (2009)
Even though medieval hunting practices were already researched through written records and iconography sources, they are not yet the subject of archaeological and arms studies. This is due to the fact that the medieval hunting tradition survived into post-medieval times, and pieces of hunting gear are hard to identify amongst the archaeological material.
Ewa Lukaszyk, Mediterranean Falconry: A Cross-Cultural Bridge for Christian-Muslim Hunting Encounters Birthday Beasts’ Book: Cultural Studies Honoring Jerzy Axer
The conflicts between Christians and Muslims provided opportunities for cross-cultural encounters in hunting, knowledge exchange, and the introduction of zoological animals, including birds and mammals trained to hunt.
Marco Masseti Pictorial Evidence from Medieval Italy of Cheetahs & Caracals and Their Use in Hunting Archives of Natural History Vol. 36:1 (2009)
Since antiquity, cheetahs have been used for hunting in the Near East and the Middle East. Caracals were primarily used for hunting birds in Iran and India, but this was not the case in Europe. Iconographic evidence from the 11th and 12th centuries in Italy and Sicily shows that the practice is rare.
A Smets & Baudouin Van den Abeele Medieval Hunting A cultural history of Animals in the Medieval Age (2007
A panorama of the sources available for a history of medieval hunting. Special emphasis is placed on treatises about falconry, hunting, iconography, and literature.
Maria Luz Rodrigo Estevan and Maria Jose Sanchez Uson, Hunters, and Hunting in Medieval Aragonese Legislation; Hunting Food – Drinking Wine: Proceedings of the XIX Congress of the International Commission for the Anthropology of Food (2006)
Our research on hunting during the 12th-15th centuries in Aragon is based on two types of legal texts. Those that are applicable to local or regional areas, such as town letters, royal privileges, and municipal statutes, and those that apply to the whole kingdom after the 13th Century, including general charters adopted by the Courts.
Richard Lewis Almond Hunting Hours, London, British Library MS Egerton 1146 M.Phil. Dissertation University of York 1999
Scholars have been fascinated by the late medieval Books of Hours for many years. They also love to write about medieval hunting, especially its aristocratic side.
William John Slayton. Medieval Hunting and Fishing practices and the Court Epics. PhD Dissertation. Rice University, 1970
In the field of actual practice you can find research on hunting methods, treatises, animals, weapons, the importance of hunting in the lives and emperors and kings and other nobles and the laws that governed medieval hunting.
