tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13713642.post3230915101598479859..comments2024-03-28T04:30:11.046-05:00Comments on Unlocked Wordhoard: Morning Medieval MiscellanyDr. Richard Scott Nokeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01348275071082514870noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13713642.post-23839685189868449522008-01-13T23:26:00.000-06:002008-01-13T23:26:00.000-06:00Thanks for the link. I tagged seven people and onl...Thanks for the link. <BR/><BR/>I tagged seven people and only four have responded so you are not alone. :-)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15707321685043937423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13713642.post-46436501811004151492008-01-13T19:55:00.000-06:002008-01-13T19:55:00.000-06:00More of an outburst than a review, I'm afraid. Tha...More of an outburst than a review, I'm afraid. Thanks for the link.<BR/><BR/>Head stake? Nice. Very good to know.<BR/><BR/>You know about the late medieval tendency of poachers (at least in England) to stake the heads of the deer they killed? Lesse, lemme check my diss real fast...found it.<BR/><BR/>"In 1334, Nicholas Meynell, a lord of the North Riding of Yorkshire, led a poaching expedition in which his party showed their contempt for the lord whose land they raided by impaling the heads of nine stolen harts on stakes planted in the ground" I got this example from Derek Rivard, “The Poachers of Pickering Forest 1282-1338.” <I>Medieval Prosopography</I> 17 (1996): 97-144.Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.com