Lecture 7 Monday February 7, 2005

Gladiators, Hughes, and Introduction to Manning’s Hunters and Poachers

 

Announcements:

(1)           One handout today

 

I. Followup thoughts on gladiatorial fights:

 

Donald G. Kyle’s book, Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome and Thomas Weidemann’s Emperors and Gladiators, published in 1992.

 

Historical fact vs. fiction—movie Gladiator and use of characters such as Emperor Commodus

 

History of “mock hunts” or venatione, reviewed from Hughes.

 

II. Medieval hunting introduction: basic terms and places to look for definitions

 

[SLIDES]:

 

“bastard feudalism”

“Star chamber”

“purlieu”

 

Deer species in England: [SLIDES]

 

From http://www.chantec5.co.uk/animaluk/articles/deer/deer1.html

 

III. Class discussion of Hughes’s Pan’s Travail

 

See Alcock, Susan E. 1995. “Review of Pan's Travail: Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, by J. Donald Hughes.” The American Historical Review 100 (2, April): 501-502. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199504%29100%3A2%3C501%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5