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By Robin S. Oggins

In medieval Europe, falconry was once possibly the preferred kind of searching one of the aristocracy. possessing a falcon, and the required falconer to compliment it, used to be a standing image during the heart a while. This publication is the 1st vast background of English royal falconry in medieval instances, a publication that pulls on 40 years of analysis to supply an entire description of the particular perform and stipulations of the game and of the function of falconers within the English royal household.

Robin S. Oggins starts off with an outline of the birds of prey, their education, and the game of falconry. He offers a brief historical past of early falconry in western Europe and England, then explores in remarkable aspect royal falconry from the reign of William I to the dying of Edward I in 1307. the writer concludes with an outline of where and value of falconry in medieval life.






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