- Gebundene Ausgabe: 282 Seiten
- Verlag: Yale University Press (November 2004)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0300100582
- ISBN-13: 978-0300100587
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 2,4 x 1,7 x 0,2 cm
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"Unearthing a wealth of new information, Oggins fills a major gap in our knowledge about medieval hunting." Baudoin van den Abeele, Universite catholique de Louvain "Professor Oggins makes an important contribution to the study of falconry and hawking in medieval England. His book will also be essential reading for those who wish to understand the households of the kings up to the early fourteenth century." C. M. Woolgar, author of The Great Household in Late Medieval England"
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In medieval Europe, falconry was perhaps the most popular form of hunting among the aristocracy. Owning a falcon, and the necessary falconer to go with it, was a status symbol throughout the middle ages. This book is the first broad history of English royal falconry in medieval times, a book that draws on forty years of research to provide a full description of the actual practice and conditions of the sport and of the role of falconers in the English royal household. Robin Oggins begins with a description of the birds prey, their training, and the sport of falconry. He provides a short history of early falconry in western Europe and England, then explores in unprecedented detail royal falconry from the reign of William I to the death of Edward I in 1307. The author concludes with an overview of the place and importance of falconry in medieval life.
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A New Way to Measure Power and Influence
2. August 2006
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
This reviewer greatly anticipated the results of Professor Oggin's decades long interest in falconry, and was gratified with a opus that honored the balance between factual, scholarly work but still offered easily digested prose.
This work can be enjoyed on many levels, from several points of view: from the falconry angle, from the medieval history angle, and from the economics of power and monarchy angle. This work brought me back to happy hours in Mr. Oggin's university classroom!
This work can be enjoyed on many levels, from several points of view: from the falconry angle, from the medieval history angle, and from the economics of power and monarchy angle. This work brought me back to happy hours in Mr. Oggin's university classroom!
A very good reference work on the subject of medieval English hawking and falconry
24. Juli 2011
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Robin Oggins' The Kings and Their Hawks: Falconry in Medieval England is both an excellent place to start for an understanding of medieval hawking and falconry as practiced by English royalty and as a reference work on the subject. I learned quite a bit from this book, particularly on just how big a role this pasttime played as a mark of medieval royal status and the lengths various English kings were willing to go to in its practice.
One important thing I learned was just what the differences were between falcons and hawks:
"The basic physical difference between falcons and hawks lies in the length and shape of their wings and tails. Falcons have narrow pointed wings and narrow tapering tails. The wing beats of the falcon are moderately rapid and regular - the French all falcons ramiers, or rowers, because of the resemblance of their flight to sculling. The hawks used in medieval Europe - goshawks and sparrowhawks - have shorter, rounder wings than falcons, and a relatively longer tail. They have a gliding flight broken at intervals by three or four wing beats, and they frequently soar with wings spread and tail fanned out - hence their French name of voiliers, or sailors.
--As a result of these physical differences, the hunting styles of falcons and hawks vary considerably. Falcons typically attack by diving or "stooping" from a considerable height. If the stoop is successful, the falcon hits its prey with tremendous speed: in the case of the peregrine, this may reach over two hundred miles per hour. The prey is struck with a blow from the talons and the first blow alone is often fatal....
--Hawks, on the other hand, usually approach their quarry at a low altitude and fly it down with a quick burst of speed. 'In fact, the hawk is called accipiter, and also astur from its natural adroitness [astus], because it almost always stays hidden and flies close to the ground, contrary to the manner of falcons, and when it takes a bird, it seizes it [accipit] from below as if whirling around on itself.' Rather than hitting the prey and returning to pick it up, as falcons do, hawks grab or clutch their prey, usually killing by driving their talons into the victim's body and holding on until the creature is dead, though they may also kill with a stroke of the beak. While both falcons and hawks have strong feet, the feet of hawks are particularly well developed for holding and killing."
My only real quibble with the book is that too often Oggins sticks to strict references to facts gleaned from medieval source materials without attempting to step back and provide a broader picture of the times. The occasional anecdote is often far more illuminating than the at times seemingly endless recitation of the costs of birds in pounds, shillings and pence drawn from royal ledgers.
Recommended for anyone with an interest in hawking and falconry as it was practiced in the Middle Ages and its role as a defining mark of status amongst royalty.
One important thing I learned was just what the differences were between falcons and hawks:
"The basic physical difference between falcons and hawks lies in the length and shape of their wings and tails. Falcons have narrow pointed wings and narrow tapering tails. The wing beats of the falcon are moderately rapid and regular - the French all falcons ramiers, or rowers, because of the resemblance of their flight to sculling. The hawks used in medieval Europe - goshawks and sparrowhawks - have shorter, rounder wings than falcons, and a relatively longer tail. They have a gliding flight broken at intervals by three or four wing beats, and they frequently soar with wings spread and tail fanned out - hence their French name of voiliers, or sailors.
--As a result of these physical differences, the hunting styles of falcons and hawks vary considerably. Falcons typically attack by diving or "stooping" from a considerable height. If the stoop is successful, the falcon hits its prey with tremendous speed: in the case of the peregrine, this may reach over two hundred miles per hour. The prey is struck with a blow from the talons and the first blow alone is often fatal....
--Hawks, on the other hand, usually approach their quarry at a low altitude and fly it down with a quick burst of speed. 'In fact, the hawk is called accipiter, and also astur from its natural adroitness [astus], because it almost always stays hidden and flies close to the ground, contrary to the manner of falcons, and when it takes a bird, it seizes it [accipit] from below as if whirling around on itself.' Rather than hitting the prey and returning to pick it up, as falcons do, hawks grab or clutch their prey, usually killing by driving their talons into the victim's body and holding on until the creature is dead, though they may also kill with a stroke of the beak. While both falcons and hawks have strong feet, the feet of hawks are particularly well developed for holding and killing."
My only real quibble with the book is that too often Oggins sticks to strict references to facts gleaned from medieval source materials without attempting to step back and provide a broader picture of the times. The occasional anecdote is often far more illuminating than the at times seemingly endless recitation of the costs of birds in pounds, shillings and pence drawn from royal ledgers.
Recommended for anyone with an interest in hawking and falconry as it was practiced in the Middle Ages and its role as a defining mark of status amongst royalty.
Title should be "What the Kings Paid their Falconers"
20. März 2011
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I was very disappointed with this book. The first chapter is by far the most interesting as it goes into detail about the birds, their prey, and how they were trained. The remaining chapters are nothing more than lists of falconers, what they were paid, and the types and colors of birds that the various kings received as gifts. I felt as if I was reading the same chapter over and over again.
I wish the author had drawn more upon the various hunting manuscripts and works of art depicting royal hunts and less upon rolls and inventories in order to give at least some sense of what a royal hunt with falcons might have been like. Given that the further back one goes in history, the more sparse the records, perhaps the very linear chronological approach Oggins used was not the way to go.
Read this book for the first chapter, but if you want to get a much better sense of what medieval royal hunts were like, read John Cummin's The Art of Medieval Hunting: The Hound and the Hawk, or better yet, Medieval hunting scenes: ("The Hunting Book" by Gaston Phoebus) [Illuminated Manuscripts] and The Master of Game.
I wish the author had drawn more upon the various hunting manuscripts and works of art depicting royal hunts and less upon rolls and inventories in order to give at least some sense of what a royal hunt with falcons might have been like. Given that the further back one goes in history, the more sparse the records, perhaps the very linear chronological approach Oggins used was not the way to go.
Read this book for the first chapter, but if you want to get a much better sense of what medieval royal hunts were like, read John Cummin's The Art of Medieval Hunting: The Hound and the Hawk, or better yet, Medieval hunting scenes: ("The Hunting Book" by Gaston Phoebus) [Illuminated Manuscripts] and The Master of Game.
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