Royal hunting, also royal art of hunting, was a hunting practice of the aristocracy throughout the known world in the Middle Ages, from Europe to Far East.

In medieval Europe rulers of feudal territories from the king downward tried to enforce exclusive rights of the nobility to hunt and fish on the lands that they ruled. Poaching was deemed a serious crime punishable by imprisonment, but enforcement was comparably weak until the 16th century.

2012年3月22日 · This chapter focuses on poachers and gamekeepers in medieval England. Most of the poachers during this period were adolescents, and poaching was viewed as an expression of youthful rebellion and juvenile delinquency.

2012年3月22日 · This chapter examines the structure of poaching and illegal deer hunting in medieval England. It explains the leadership of the gentry in poaching gangs and discusses the factionalism in unlawful hunting that flourished in Tudor and early Stuart England because of conflicts in overlapping hunting franchises and jurisdictions, and competition ...

In their descriptions not only of how, but of where and when and in whose company, men – and, very occasionally, women – hunted, the forest records provide scores of vignettes of English medieval rural social life.

In Medieval England, famine was common in most years. Yet hunting for your supper was forbidden to common folk. Which begs the question: Could a peasant go to the gallows for poaching? You best believe it. In England during the early Medieval era, every forest in the realm belonged to the king.

2015年6月8日 · Archaeologists working in northern England have uncovered a stone-lined cess pit that was filled with dozens of bones from deer. The evidence suggests that they were dumped here by poachers.

This chapter examines hunting and poaching in medieval England in the context of social privilege. It explains that almost all monarchs during this period were immersed in the deer-hunting culture and its symbolic language of violence, and suggests that the hunting culture perpetuated military values and violent behaviour in times of peace and ...

2024年9月30日 · But Frederick Gowing, known as the “greatest poacher in England,” was there to explain his business to a House of Commons Select Committee on the Game Laws. In so doing, he would pull back the curtain on a huge underground economy.

Holmes, MA; (2014) Making a fast buck in the middle ages: Evidence for poaching from Medieval Wakefield. In: Sykes, N and Baker, K and Carden, R, (eds.) Deer and People: Past, Present and Future. (pp. 200-207). Windgather Press