The Kings and Their Hawks

Falconry in Medieval England

Bibliographic Data

ID9804044
AuthorsR Almond (North Yorkshire County Council, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume122
Issue497
Pages808-809
Publication date2007-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe English Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ehr/cem131
OpenAlexW2040846286
LanguageEN
Citations received4

This is a remarkable book, the result of forty years of dedicated research, with its origins in a doctoral dissertation topic suggested by Robin Oggins's academic supervisor at the University of Chicago. The main themes of the book are the sports of falconry and hawking which, in methods of practice and status of practitioners, differed in a number of important respects; the professionals (the hitherto unacknowledged stars of the royal mews) who cared for, trained, carried, and very often flew the royal falcons and hawks; and the English kings, who over 250 years expended so much of their time and income on these magnificent hunting birds. Kings feature prominently in this study, as the main sources of evidence are royal records, and because the personal tastes in sport of individual kings involved vast expenditure. A useful start in Oggins's introduction is a short discussion on the differences between hunting with

Economics · Hawking · Record keeping · Historical and Archaeological Studies · History · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Medieval Literature and History

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