Animals and Hunters in the Late Middle Ages

<p>This book explores views of the natural world in the late Middle Ages especially as expressed in <em>Livre de chasse</em> (<em>Book of the Hunt</em>) 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.</p>