Renaissance and Regency Rummage Repository: animals

A rummage through random aspects of the past that interest me and may be of use or interest to other readers and writers of period fiction. Please note that the stories featured and my artwork for the covers are copyright; and have the courtesy to ask permission if you wish to use anything that is mine, and duly acknowledge it if you do.

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Sunday, 22 May 2016

Names of Georgian and Regency Horses

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Here the noble steed Diamond by Highflyer, dam by Matchem. The pedigrees of horses did not always give much in the way of information a...

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Sunday, 18 March 2012

The Dogs of the Medieval/Renaissance Hunt

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Renaissance and Medieval hunting; the hunting dogs of the period. There were two forms of hunting; with stable and bow, and ‘ par ...

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Friday, 9 December 2011

The Hawks and Falcons of the Renaissance and Medieval Mews

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from Frederick II of Hohenstaufen's book, de arti venandi cum avibus As we move towards the Christmas feast I thought I’d lo...

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Friday, 30 September 2011

Livestock and a few terms and sayings surrounding them

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Everything you never wanted to know about sheep. Sheep are not just sheep. That is to say, there is a wide range of terminology conne...

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Sarah: Well, let me see, I'm a bibliophile, Ailurophile, technophobe and practising to be a grumpy old woman. I get irritated by glaring anachronisms in fiction, and I love to read a well researched book. I live in East Anglia in England, and I love the history that surrounds me there. My major field of interest is in textiles; I also sew.

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