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| The Kings and Their Hawks: Falconry in Medieval England |  | Author: Robin S. Oggins
Publisher: Yale University Press
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 229,518
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 282
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 799.23209420902
Publication Date: October 11, 2004
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Product Description
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 S. Oggins begins with a description of the birds of 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.
Robin S. Oggins is a retired medieval historian and fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He lives in Vestal, New York.
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| Customer Reviews:
A New Way to Measure Power and Influence August 2, 2006
Rosa Campa Hearne (Holmdel, NJ)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
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!
I love this book November 10, 2006
49yo female (MA United States)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I love this book. The topic is pretty esoteric but the writing is easy to read and the subject is covered well, in sufficient detail and well documented and researched.
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