This book explores views of the natural world in the late Middle Ages, especially as expressed in Livre de chasse (Book of the Hunt) [Bibliothèque Nationale de France, fr. 616], 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. - [Abstract]

Language: English

ISBN: 978-1-315-73141-4; DOI: 10.4324/9781315731414