Dog-Related Links and Bibliography -- A Work in Progress

Game Animals

Bailey, Mark. "The Rabbit and the Medieval East Anglian Economy." Agricultural History Review 36 (1988): 1-20.

Matheson, Colin. "The Rabbit and Hare in Wales." Antiquity (1941): 371-381.

Sheail, John. Rabbits and their History. Country Book Club: Newton Abbot, 1971.

Veale, Elspeth M. "The Rabbit in England." Agricultural History Review 5 (1957): 85-90.

General Dog Information

American Kennel Club

Hunting

Barlow, Frank. "Hunting in the Middle Ages." Report, Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art 113 (1981):

Cummins, John. The Hound and the Hawk: The Art of Medieval Hunting. New York: St Martin's Press, 1988.

Freeman, Margaret B. The Unicorn Tapestries. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976.

Gilbert, John M. Hunting and Hunting Reserves in Medieval Scotland. Edinburgh: John Donald, 1979.

The Master of Game, by Edward, 2nd duke of York. Edited by Wm. A. and F. Baillie-Grohman. New York: Duffield, 1909.

Reeves, Compton. Pleasures and Pastimes in Medieval England. Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1995.

Wingfield Digby, George. The Devonshire Hunting Tapestries. London: HMSO, 1971.

ORB Medieval Bibliographies: Medieval Hunting, Falconry, Angling, and Horsemanship

James I. McNelis, III's Medieval Hunting and Falconry Links Page

Images from Early Hunting Manuals

Gaston Phoebus, Book of the Hunt, Bibliothèque Nationale MS Fr 616 (15th c.)
Jacques Du Fouilloux, La Venerie (1561)

Medieval Forests and Forest Law

Bechman, Roland. Trees and Man: The Forest in the Middle Ages. 1990.

James, N.D.G. A History of English Forestry Oxford: Blackwell,1981

-----. An Historical Dictionary of Forestry and Woodland Terms. 1991

Grant, Raymond. The Royal Forests of England Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1991.

Hinde, Thomas. Forests of Britain. 1985.

Whitlock, Ralph. Historic Forests of England. A.S. Barnes & Co., 1979.

Young, Charles R. The Royal Forests of Medieval England U of Pennsylvania P, 1979.

Peasants and Poaching

Duby, Georges. Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West. translated by Cynthia Postan. 1962. repr. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1998.

Freedman, Paul. Images of the Medieval Peasant Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1999.

Hanawalt, B.A. The Ties that Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

-----. "Men's Games, King's Deer: Poaching in Medieval England." Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 18 (1988):

Manning, Roger B. Hunters and Poachers: A Cultural and Social History of Unlawful Hunting in England, 1485-1640. Oxford and New York: Clarendon, 1993.

Watkins, Andrew. "Peasants in Arden." In Daily Life in the Late Middle Ages edited by Richard Britnell. Stroud: Sutton, 1998. 83-101.

Miscellaneous

Four Centuries of Dog Collars at Leeds Castle. Leeds Castle Foundation: Maidstone, Kent, 1991.

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Updated 13 August 2004