Foxhunting [ Games & Sports ]
… transformed into a fast-paced and fashionable pursuit. Practices > Games & Sports Mots-clés Animals Elite Hunting Sports Women Hunting had been the foremost recreation of British kings, nobles and elites since the middle ages, yet the hunting … sportsmen. One final development in the world of eighteenth-century hunting worth noting is the gradual exclusion of women, for the development of new forms of foxhunting not only made an old pastime more elitist, it also appears to have … any detailed discussion of female hunting in the medieval and early modern periods, though it is well known that women did ride to hounds throughout this period. Records of poaching in the royal forests indicate that women were …
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