Hunting Law and Ritual in Medieval English Literature

Study of hunting as it appears both in didactic texts, and epic and romance. A truly remarkable book... deeply erudite, building on scholarship from French, Swedish, German, and English sources, ranging from pre-Conquest and Norman times to the late middle ages. The book guides us through the changing phases of hunting laws with great precision, neatly relating them to changes in hunting ritual [and their complex expression in literary texts]... The originality, lyricism and scholarship of this