Iluminating the Hunt in the Middle Ages: an Approach to the Ibero-romance Medieval Hunting Iconography
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https://doi.org/10.37536/RPM.2016.30.0.49694Keywords:
Miniatures, Hunting, Falconry, Illuminated manuscripts, Middle Ages, RenaissanceAbstract
From the age of Rock art, hunting has been one of the favourite themes. During the Middle Ages hunting books emerge, although they have a tenuous history in the Greco-Latin Antiquity, an interesting technical and practical literature that in its heyday develops an interesting illustrative scheme. Notwithstanding the Iberian Peninsula has a very characteristic hunting literature full of personal notes and has some exclusive peculiarities as guides to the best hunting locations, however it is very poor when it comes to illustrate the texts. Since it is basically a technical literature, it limits its illustrative scheme to represent the necessary tools. However, there are some fine examples, although the best images of the hunt do not illustrate technical books but other literary types. Afterwards, medical and surgical instruments depicted in falconry books, especially in the series initiated by Pero Menino’s Livro da falcoaria and disseminated by López de Ayala’s Libro de la caza de las aves, will be dealt with. The study closes with an analysis of the hunting miniatures from the Cantigas de Santa Maria.
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