MEDIEVAL LIFE AND LEISURE
In the Devonshire hunting Tapestries
by Linda Woolley
Focusing on the four exceptional fifteenth century Devonshire hunting tapestries that are housed in the Victoria and Albert museum ; the only such tapestries to have survived.
These scenes depict a lost chivalric world in rich and fascinating detail from the late middle ages while hunting with the falcon or hounds was common place among the nobility of the Europe, providing rise to the saying 'The sport of Kings'. The tapestries were owned by the duke of Devonshire once upon a time, and they vividly record falcony, hunting for otter, boa, bear and deer; as well as the ransacking of a swan's nest for its eggs.
They also contemporary scholars much about human behavior of that time, what type of clothing had been worn, and other customs of those days.
In the Devonshire hunting Tapestries
by Linda Woolley
Focusing on the four exceptional fifteenth century Devonshire hunting tapestries that are housed in the Victoria and Albert museum ; the only such tapestries to have survived.
These scenes depict a lost chivalric world in rich and fascinating detail from the late middle ages while hunting with the falcon or hounds was common place among the nobility of the Europe, providing rise to the saying 'The sport of Kings'. The tapestries were owned by the duke of Devonshire once upon a time, and they vividly record falcony, hunting for otter, boa, bear and deer; as well as the ransacking of a swan's nest for its eggs.
They also contemporary scholars much about human behavior of that time, what type of clothing had been worn, and other customs of those days.
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