Medieval Hunting as a Sport
Cruelty in Sport and Entertainment
Why have blood sports and other sports been seen as entertainment over time?
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2. Women were allowed to hunt, but some participated illegally. Contemporary manuscripts show them _____.
- attacking with swords
- cleaning the carcass
- observing the kill
- eating the remains
3. The forests of England were owned by the reigning monarch. They could give out a _____ permiting the nobility to hunt. Commoners only had the right to hunt animals on _____.
- hunting permit, local grounds
- grant of nobility, grasslands
- royal licence, common land
- royal permit, foreign land
4. The punishment for nobility breaking forest laws was by fines. How could the poor be punished?
- hanging, blinding, being sewn into a deerskin and being hunted by dogs
- branding, gouging eyes out, being thrown in a lion cage
- being jabbed with a hot poker, put in a crate and sent to sea, whipping
- court trial, criminal isolation, agriculture ruined
5. Thomas Moore's ideas about hunting ("the vilest source of butchery") were not well accepted. He wrote a book called...
- Slaughter of Species (1514)
- Gloria (1512)
- Utopia (1516)
- Manifestation (1520)
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