Medieval Hunting: Fact and Fancy.

Author / Editor
Orme, Nicholas.

Title
Medieval Hunting: Fact and Fancy.

Published
Barbara A. Hanawalt, ed. Chaucer's England: Literature in Historical Context (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992), pp. 133-53.

Description
Surveys the attitudes toward and conditions of hunting in late-medieval society, describing practices, laws, criminal offense, social variety, and artistic representations in literature and visual art. Includes brief comments on KnT, BD, and the GP descriptions of the Monk and the Yeoman

Alternative Title
Chaucer's England: Literature in Historical Context.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Book of the Duchess
General Prologue to the CanterburyTales
Knight and His Tale