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What if caring for hounds and tracking a hart could teach a nobleman how to live?
In The Master of Game, Edward of Norwich opens the world of hunting at an English king’s court. As Master of Game, he is responsible for the king’s hunting and hounds. His treatise brings you close to the animals, practical skills and duties that shape this part of noble life.
Accounts of hares, harts and boars sit alongside the customs of English and French hunting. Beneath these practical details lies a moral argument: hunting keeps a man from idleness and vice. The care of dogs and the knowledge of quarry become part of a larger claim about virtue.
What you’ll discover
- Hounds at the heart Meet scent hounds, greyhounds and boar dogs, and explore the care each needs.
- Know the hunted animal Follow close accounts of the hare, hart and boar through a medieval huntsman’s eyes.
- A language of tracks Discover the precise terms for animals’ tracks, droppings, groups and cries.
- Skill as a virtue Examine the book’s claim that an active hunting life guards against idleness and bad habits.
- English and French customs See where Edward’s accounts of English hunting differ from the French practices described here.
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For readers who love medieval history, dogs and country lore, and anyone curious about how noble life really worked.
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- A nobleman's manual passed to a prince
- Hunting keeps a man from idleness and sin
- The hound is the heart of the hunt
- Know your quarry beast by beast
- The huntsman's craft, language and duties
- English chapters and a lasting legacy
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Meister des Wildes
by Eduard von Norwich; Gaston III. Phoebus, Graf von Foix · 1410
A medieval duke teaches a prince to read the woods, care for hounds and see hunting as a path to virtue.
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The Master of Game is a book about how to hunt, written for a king's court in England in the early fifteenth century. Its author is Edward of Norwich, second Duke of York, a cousin of King Henry the Fourth and the man who held the royal office of Master of Game.
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A nobleman's manual passed to a prince
The book has two authors and two eras behind it. Gaston Phoebus ruled Foix and Béarn in the south of France, and he wrote the Book of the Hunt in the late fourteenth century. He was a famous hunter and a proud lord, and he wrote from long practice. Copies of his work were made with painted pictures, and they spread through the courts of Europe.
Edward of Norwich took that French book and made it English. He did not simply copy it. He chose what to keep, he put the sentences into his own language, and he said openly that he was working from Gaston's text. His own additions are the part of the book that deals with England.
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What is The Master of Game about?
It is a medieval guide to hunting. It covers the habits of animals such as the hare, hart and boar, the care of hounds, the duties of huntsmen, and an argument that hunting makes a man virtuous.
Who wrote The Master of Game?
Edward of Norwich, second Duke of York, wrote it in early fifteenth century England. Most of it adapts the French Book of the Hunt by Gaston Phoebus, Count of Foix, with Edward's own chapters on English hunting added.
Why is it called The Master of Game?
Edward held the royal office of Master of Game, in charge of the king's hunting and hounds. The title names both his job and the kind of expert knowledge the book hopes to pass to its reader.
The author
Edward of Norwich
1373–1415 · English nobleman and hunting writer
Edward of Norwich (1373–1415) was an English nobleman and the second Duke of York. He lived in England and served in military campaigns. In the early fifteenth century, he compiled The Master of Game, an English hunting manual based on a French work. He died at the Battle of Agincourt in France.
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