The Art Of Medieval Falconry

Author : Yannis Hadjinicolaou
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789149614
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Medieval Falconry written by Yannis Hadjinicolaou and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2024-08-12 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated tour of the visual culture of medieval falconry in Europe and beyond. Medieval falconry was not just about hunting; the practice also signified sovereignty, power, and diplomacy. In The Art of Medieval Falconry, Yannis Hadjinicolaou describes the visual culture that sprang up around these practices, tracking how imagery, equipment, and even the birds themselves moved through the medieval world. Indeed, Hadjinicolaou shows that falconry has been a global phenomenon since at least the thirteenth century. This beautifully illustrated book offers a unique glimpse at how cultures across the globe adopted and adapted the visual culture of medieval falconry.

Author : Danna Smith
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0763679925
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hawk of the Castle written by Danna Smith and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gentle verse and sweeping, majestic artwork set imaginations soaring in a handsome and illuminating ode to the ancient art of falconry. Join a young girl and her father, the falconer at a medieval castle, as they experience the joys of taking a goshawk out for a training flight. The girl leads readers through all the preparations and equipment needed for the flight — from the hawk’s hood and bells to the falconer’s gloves — culminating in a dramatic demonstration of the hawk’s hunting skill. Bagram Ibatoulline’s masterful illustrations capture the vivid details and beauty of a day spent hawking, while Danna Smith’s poetic storytelling will make readers long to experience the art and sport of falconry firsthand.

Author : John G. Cummins
Publisher : Booksales
ISBN 13 : 9780785815921
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Medieval Hunting written by John G. Cummins and published by Booksales. This book was released on 2003 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Frederick II (Holy Roman Emperor)
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804703741
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Falconry, by Frederick II of Hohenstaufen written by Frederick II (Holy Roman Emperor) and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1961 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De Arte Venandi cum Avibus was written shortly before the year 1250 by Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Sicily and Jerusalem, in whose court, with its remarkably cosmopolitan and highly intellectual life, may be found the real beginning of the Italian Renaissance. In spite of its title, it is far more than a dissertation on hunting. There is a lengthy introduction dealing with the anatomy of birds, an intensely interesting description of avian habits, and the excursions of migratory birds. Indeed, this ancient book has long been recognized as the first zoological treatise written in the critical spirit of modern science. The sumptuous volume now in hand is, however, the first translation into English of the complete text, originally divided into a prologue and size books. Together, the translators and editors, have at last made available this classic work and have adorned it with notes, comments, bibliographies, and glossary. They have produced a work of great value to zoologists--especially the ornithologist--and also to everyone interested in the history of science and in medieval art and letters.

Author : John Cummins
Publisher : Phoenix
ISBN 13 : 9781842120972
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hound and the Hawk written by John Cummins and published by Phoenix. This book was released on 2001 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunting was a training for war and a rite of manhood, a powerful and ritualistic pastime, the sport of kings.In vivid and engrossing detail John Cummins shows us the appropriate methods for hunting all kinds of deer, boar, wolves, foxes, bear, otter, birds hare - even unicorn.Hunting and hawking run throughout medieval art and literature, providing not only narrative motifs for tapestries, romances and sagas but also metaphors for war and combat, for Christianity wrestling with the dark forces of paganism, and for sexual pursuit and conquest.Dr Cummins' book ranges over a dazzling diversity of sources - poems, ballads, letters, court directives, royal accounts, gamekeepers' handbooks, psalters - to recreate and interpret the cosmos of medieval hunting and falconry, the skills and techniques, superstitions and beliefs.Richly illustrated from a variety of sources, The Hound and the Hawk shows us a pageant of medieval and Renaissance life lived in its grandest, most flamboyant, most allusive manner.

Author : E. B. Michell
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art and Practice of Hawking written by E. B. Michell and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art and Practice of Hawking is a manual on hawking, a feeding strategy in birds involving catching flying insects in the air. Also covered are the topics of how to look after and train a hunting bird.

Author : Christian Antoine de Chamerlat
Publisher : Philip Wilson Publishers, Limited
ISBN 13 : 0856673382
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Falconry and Art written by Christian Antoine de Chamerlat and published by Philip Wilson Publishers, Limited. This book was released on 1987 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robin S. Oggins
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300100587
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kings and Their Hawks written by Robin S. Oggins and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the equivalent of polo-playing today, the sport of falconry was the preserve of the wealthy and royalty, regarded as both a suitable and enjoyable leisure activity, and as a source of status and prestige.

Author : Gage Earle Freeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781436844116
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Falconry written by Gage Earle Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Collectif
Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 2600362363
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Falconry in the Mediterranean Context During the Pre-Modern Era written by Collectif and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falconry has been the pursuit of kings, emperors, emirs, khans, merchants and travellers for over 2000 years. It has provided subjects for literature and art, and been discussed in works of zoology, medicine, and law. The papers in this volume originated in a conference held at New York University at Abu Dhabi, and discuss issues on medieval falconry around the Mediterranean. This includes treatises on hawks and falcons, in Spain, the Levant, Byzantium, the Arabic Middle East, and a comparison between European and Arabic manuals. Other contributions consider falconry in Arabic poetry, in Provençal and Italian literature, in little known Neo-Latin poetry, in painting. There is place for legal aspects, with regulations concerning falconry in Jewish law, and for concrete realities: the spread of falconry from Central Asia to Europe as documented by archaeology, falconry at the Sforza court of Milan and the trade of the highly prized gyrfalcons. Through these case studies, the Mediterranean appears as a space of exchange and mutual influence.