Hunting and poaching played significant roles in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Deer-hunting was an integral part of the culture of the aristocracy and gentry. It afforded not only recreation, but also served as a symbolic substitute for war and rebellion. During this period, the distinction between lawful and unlawful hunting remained unclear, for the Game Laws were obscure and difficult to enforce. Roger B. Manning's meticulously researched study explores symbolic and covert forms of protest, and adds much to our knowledge of the interaction between aristocratic and popular culture in early modern England.
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"Breaks significantly new ground....The material, much of it archival, that he (Manning) has so meticulously sifted through radically alters our social and historical understanding not only of legal and illegal hunting in the period, but of a number of major literary texts."--New York Review of Books
"Hunters and Poachers is a wonderful addition to a neglected area of social history. Manning writes with refreshing clarity and conviction...This book deserves an enthusiastic recommendation and a wide audience."--Sixteenth Century Journal
"In Hunters and Poachers Roger Manning uncovers, as he did in Village Revolts (Oxford, 1988), a rich variety of places of contention in Tudor and early Stuart England."--Law and History Review
"Roger Manning's Hunters and Poachers is a solidly researched work that details the essentials of participating in an organized hunt, as well as methods of poaching....He literally takes us on a number of hunts in which we can see the elements involved in staging and participating in an organized hunt...When Manning addresses distinct aspects of hunting and poaching he is stikingly successful."--Renaissance Quarterly
"Hunters and Poachers makes an important comment upon the nature of social change in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and in the process illustrates why the history of popular culture is in trouble."--Albion
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