copyright Martha Carlin 2016
Week 14: DISPLAY, HUNTING, AND TOURNAMENTS
Tuesday:
Music:
“The Second Week of Deer Camp” (Da Yoopers, 3:09 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb9yhhflmvY
Videos:
“Ivanhoe” trailer (1952, 1:51 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngn-GvqXIc8
Knights of Chivalry: A Tribute to Medieval Epic Movies (10:56 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQeBvEafn_c
Falconry (6 minutes):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufstmgDtNrM
Manuscript image (includes Documents 65-66):
https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/carlin/www/Fairfax27fol4v.JPG
Readings:
Bartlett, England under the Norman and Angevin Kings, pp. 235-244 (Display; Horse and Hound; Tournaments), 670-674 (Animals of the Wild)
Labarge, A Baronial Household of the Thirteenth Century, pp. 166-184 (Chap. 10, “The Amusements of a Baronial Household”)
Carlin and Crouch, Lost Letters of Medieval Life, pp. 191-216 (Documents 61-66)
Glossary for Magna Carta (useful generally for legal terminology of early 13th-century England)
Maps:
The Angevin “Empire”:
http://www.heritage-history.com/maps/philips/phil035.jpg
Henry III’s territories:
http://www.heritage-history.com/maps/gardiner/gard012.jpg
Medieval England and Wales:
http://www.heritage-history.com/maps/philips/phil034.jpg
Wales and the Marches in the Thirteenth Century:
http://www.heritage-history.com/maps/philips/phil036c.jpg
Map of England by Matthew Paris
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/takingliberties/images/319matthewparismapbig.jpg
Topics:
Aristocratic culture featured:
Display
Largesse
Luxury
Entertainment
Cloth and clothing:
Scarlets
Robes
Furs
Game parks and hunting:
Parks: woodland and/or heathland, enclosed by ditches, banks, and palisades
Fishponds: pike, perch, roach
Deer: red deer (harts and hinds), fallow deer (bucks and does), roe deer (roebucks and does)
Hunted on horseback with dogs and then killed on foot with sword or knife, or hunted with bows from stationary “trysts”
Hares: coursed on horseback with greyhounds
Hounds: greyhounds, wolfhounds, brachets (trackers), spaniels (“bird dogs”), otter hounds
Hawks (used in brush or woodland): kill by gripping and slashing prey; trained to return to gloved fist, without lure
Falcons (used over open country): kill by plummeting down on prey and splitting or decapitating it with one blow; trained to return to lure on ground
Recreations and entertainments:
Hunting and hawking
Bowls
Chess
Other games (dice, tables, tric trac, etc.)
Minstrels, acrobats, and other entertainers
Music and singing
Dancing
Domestic pets (cats, dogs, magpies, monkeys)
Tournaments:
Mêlée: mounted charge between two teams
Estor: charge
Joust: encounter between two knights
Images:
Tournament (death of Gilbert Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, in a tournament, 1241)
Dicing (the Prodigal Son loses his shirt, from the windows of Bourges Cathedral)
Playing chess (fifteenth century)
Lewis Chessmen (late 12th cent.)
Men playing checkers (“Jeu de Dames”), from the windows of Le Mans Cathedral (mid 13 C.), and another scene of the same
Men playing “tric-trac”, from the windows of Le Mans Cathedral (mid 13 C.), and another scene of the same
Bowling
Children’s toys:
fighting knight-puppets, end of 12th cent. (Hortus deliciarum)
tops, dice, and balls, after 1278 (from excavations in Konstanz and Freiburg)
pewter knight on horseback, c. 1300 (Museum of London)
riding stick-horses, early 15th cent. (Blumen der Tugend)
Images:
From De arte venandi cum avibus, by Frederick II (d. 1250):
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/De_arte_venandi_cum_avibus3.jpg
http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/illuman/images/full_resolution/13_10.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/De_arte_venandi_cumavibus.jpg
Thursday:
Manners; A Knight’s Correspondence: Building a Barn and a Windmill
Readings:
Bartlett, England under the Norman and Angevin Kings, pp. 573-588 (Grooming; Drinking and Violence; The “Civilized Man”)
Carlin and Crouch, Lost Letters of Medieval Life, pp. 278-291 (Documents 94-100)
Videos:
Simon Schama, “1258: History of Britain, Henry III — Battle for Ideas” (BBC, 58:59 min.):
(5:00- 15:49: Henry III and the Lord Edward vs. Simon de Montfort, 1258-1265)
(formerly available on YouTube, but no longer; UWM’s Library has a DVD: Media Library, DVD-7267)
David Clover, “Great Coxwell Cistercian Tithe Barn, c. 1300″ (built by the Cistercian monks of Beaulieu Abbey; 3:20 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTeqxwFt2IU
Harmondsworth Barn, Middlesex, built 1426 (2:25 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft1hYYFGIGI
How to eat crabs (3:27 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQxJ_i2LMHU
Music:
Drolls, “Bache, bene venies” (Carmina burana, 13th cent.; 3:29 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4WVh1RIG0c
Drolls, “In taberna quando sumus” (Carmina burana, 13th cent.; 3:30 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjnzJZ-OWns
Topics:
Fashion
Hair
Dress
Drinking
Toasts: Wassail/Drinkhail; Pril/Wril
Wine, ale, cider, perry, mead
Swearing
Insults
Urbanus magnus (The “Civilized Man”), by Daniel of Beccles: the first English courtesy book
Hierarchy and patronage: how to behave to superiors and inferiors
Manners
Bodily control
Sex
Royal foresters and their powers and perquisites
Windmill technology and design
The value of oak trees and forests
The role of favor-exchange in medieval society
The transportation of goods and people
Hiring a carpenter
Manorial bailiffs and their duties
Cash and credit
Royal household knights and their wives
Evidence of the use of correspondence in daily life?
Images:
Barber shaving a client (from a German playing card, c. 1455)
Maidservant dresses woman’s hair (from Luttrell Psalter, 1330s)
Ivory comb (French, c. 1325-1350, in V & A)
Images from the Maciejowski Bible (Paris, 1240s):
Male fashion
Young female fashion
Absolom flirts with David’s concubines
A household at table
King David sees Bathsheba bathing
Windmills:
Judgment of Solomon, with windmill above (from “Windmill Psalter,” East Anglia, late 13th C.)
Windmill (English, 14th cent.)
Windmill (from Smithfield Decretals, c. 1340)
