Free Download Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture (Interventions: New Studies Medieval Cult) by Sara Petrosillo
English | January 31, 2023 | ISBN: 0814215483 | True PDF | 214 pages | 9 MB
While critical discourse about falconry metaphors in premodern literature is dominated by depictions of women as unruly birds in need of taming, women in the Middle Ages claimed the symbol of a hawking woman on their personal seals, trained and flew hawks, and wrote and read poetic texts featuring female falconers.