"There came a hart in at the chamber door": Medieval Deer as Pets.

Author / Editor
Judkins, Ryan R.

Title
"There came a hart in at the chamber door": Medieval Deer as Pets.

Published
Enarratio 18 (2013): 23-48.

Description
Surveys historical and literary evidence that deer were kept as pets in the Middle Ages, including discussion of deer parks and Nature's garden in PF, which "Chaucer's audience would almost certainly have understood as a deer park."

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls