Hunting

Live animal hunt activities are prohibited at SCA Events. These include, but are not limited to: deer hunting, boar hunts, and game bird shoots.

* The Policy does not address, nor restrict, fishing or falconry.
* The Policy does not address, nor restrict, individuals hunting on site-owner's land with proper permits, licenses, and in accordance with applicable modern laws, regulations and statute.
* The Policy does not address, nor restrict, the teaching of classes on period hunting.

See Additional Policies of the Society Seneschal, Item XIII.

This is a working study of the methods used in the Middle Ages to catch birds. The methods outlined in this document all work, to varying degrees.

The deer in the parks, chases and forests of medieval England were managed more actively, and witha greater skill and care, than is perhaps generally realized. Their owners derived considerab le benefits from them, not only in the opportunit y to hunt, which was often subsidiary , but invenison, a high status meat. Though deer were oten privileged , deer farming was generally integrated into other agricultur e or woodland activities ; deer parks, in particular , were often efficientl y managed units fulfilling a number of other purposes, so much so that we should perhaps be cautious about dismissing them, as is so often done, as no more than status symbols.

The table of contents and illustrations from a 16th century hunting manual by Jaques du Fouilloux.

An email list created for the discussion of all things hunting and fishing in medieval times.

Emperor Maximilian 's book of advice on proper hunting clothes, with a transcript ion of the original German, modern German, and English translatio n.

Mailing list for the interkingdom Hunt Guild.

Notes on hunting in 16th century England.

The Hunting Museum of Finland, which presents exhibits on Finnish hunting from the Stone Age to the present day.

The French museum of the hunt.

This paper seeks in the first place to give some indication of the range of these industries in a few English forests of the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, and then to describe their organizati on.

Queen Elizabeth& #39;s Hunting Lodge was originally called the Great Standing. It was built for King Henry VIII in 1543 and was used as a grandstand to watch the hunting of deer or possibly from which to shoot deer, with crossbows. It is the only remaining timber-fra med Standing in England.

Some of the sports, games, music, verse, dancing, toys, and other pastimes of the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. Despite the full agricultural year that most people faced, there was always time for folk to partake in games, challenges, tests of skill and general larking about.

The fauna of Anglo-Saxon England was plentiful and varied, and included some animals that have since been made extinct in this country. The vast areas of uninhabited forests, heaths and fells were home to many creatures, in addition to the other wild creatures that inhabited the towns and villages including the domestic animals.

Medieval hunting.

Philip Stubbes started writing around 1581 producing small tracts in which he sharply denounced the manners, pastimes, fashions and culture in England. His major work, The Anatomie of Abuses, was first published in 1583.

P hilip Stubbes had a gift for keen observatio n. Although his comments should not be considered to reveal mainstream thought or opinions of the time, (even his contempora ries thought him extreme) his virulent attacks on the abuses in fashion and English society provide us with a detailed, colorful and picturesqu e glimpse into the England of Shakespear e's youth.

Links, mailing lists, and books on hunting, dogs & coursing, hawking, and fishing.

Talbot Mac Taggart describes the process of training for huntsmen in the Middle Ages.

This is a list to discuss the uses and purposes of canines in the period studied by the SCA, such as, but not limited to, the use of terriers, lurchers & coursers, cart dogs & draft uses, hunting & hounds, herding, guard, and companion dogs. Discussions on breeding, rearing, feeding, training, equipping and any other canine related study or activity would be most welcome. As per requests, we have also expanded to welcome and include animals of the hunt, partners and team members to our canine pursuits, such as hawks, ferrets, and horses, so we can better understand and work with gentles working in these endeavors as well.