Event Ideas - Hounds

Harpies and Hillians, Horses and Hounds, Hunting the Hart

Guinefort, The Sainted Dog of France, on the Florilegium - http://www.florilegium.org/?http%3A//www.florilegium.org/files/ANIMALS/Guinefort-art.html

Most Period Dog Competition - document most period breed/type, most period outfit/tack/collar, most period function, most period excuses... (use Kingdom criteria?)

Rowan Houndskeeper (wife of Keith Roberts) - group? email?

Zsiggy - AKC and ASFA Field Champion greyhound

Re: [SCA_Coursing] Questions about coursing practices, etc... Deborah Wodraska Sat, 18 Jun 2005 22:53:04 -0700

Dear Cait in Calontir with Corgis!Rowan, the Hound Mistress for Calontir, is at Lilies right now. Two things: Please join the new SCA Hound Coursing list which was set up to replace this old one, and please email Rowan about the requirements (I know we're under A&S, so it's a matter of just following sound and basic safety procedures for dogs and people, and having dog knowledgeable and lure equipment knowledgeable folk running the show...which is all you, I know! So, I think you should be able to do these activities without much, if any, bureaucracy.). Now, here's the really greyt part: You can accomplish both these tasks by going to the new Calontir Hound Coursing website, where you will find both a link to Rowan's email addy, and a link to the new SCA Hound Coursing Yahoo Group webpage where you can subscribe to the new list! Huzzah! Calontir Hound Coursing is at: Http://www.courtecadeno.com/Calontir_Hound_Coursing.html It's good to know you are still out there, Cait! I think I lost you when I began to post only to the new list. I need to remember to cross-post to the old, too, at least for some time to come! I know you were interested in contributing to our efforts of getting a Hunt Guild started here in Calontir as well. There is a link to that new web page also on the Calon Coursing web page. Please email me from there (my e-link is thar) and let me know what you think of it! And, any ideas for our fledgling group! Calontir Vivat! Where reside the bestest houndies in the Knowne World, in both the short leggity and long leggity variety!Mevanwy and the Men in Black, Douglas and Ambrosewww.courtecadeno.com

Volkshund - Yahoo! group.- http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Volkshund/info

SCA Hound Coursing - Yahoo! group - http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/SCA_Hound_Coursing/info

Coursing - in the race track enclosure?

Agility Trials - in the show barn (need extra fencing for the ends?) or the beef barn

Nosework - in the show barn

Earthwork = tunnels and tracking (see Volkshund Yahoo! group files - under Proposed Canine Activities)

Trailing - siege weapon area, everywhere

Retriever Trials ? on the siege weapon course

Draft work with stone boats (sledges on grass, weights proportional to dog weights) - in the dirt part of the beef barn, the show barn or outside

Show Barn	Show Barn
Show Barn	Beef Barn, dirt area
	Poultry Barn
Siege Weapon Field

Per Lindsay Townsend - "Dogs remained a favourite - so much so that nunneries tried and failed to ban the keeping of dogs as pets in various convents." 

Per John Aberth, An Environmental History of the Middle Ages... , p 175 - Romsey nunnery in Hampshire and several 13th century nunneries in Rouen. Lapdogs and pet squirrels shown in the Lutrell psalter. Also shown in tomb effigies.

Bibliography

see http://medievaldogs.wikispaces.com/Bibliography

‘De Canibus Britannieus’ Dr Johannes Caius, England, Latin 1570, (‘Of English dogges’) English 1576

1. I. Hunting Dogs
   1. i. Venatici Group
      1. 1. Leverarws or Harriers (rabbit hunting dogs)
      2. 2. Terrarius or Terrars (Terriers varied in size color and coat type)
      3. 3. Sanguinarius or Bloodhounds (more size/coat variance than modern dogs)
      4. 4. Agaseus or Gazehounds (greyhound like dogs)
      5. 5. Leporanus or Grehounds (more size/coat variance than modern dogs)
      6. 6. Loranus or Lyemmer (another type of scent hound or Bloodhound)
      7. 7. Vertigus or Tumbler (may be a turn spit)
      8. 8. Cams Furax or Stealer (sometimes believed to be a poaching dog)
   2. ii. Aucupatorii
      1. 1. Index or Setter (more size/coat variance than modern dogs)
      2. 2. Aquaticus or Spaniell (more size/coat variance than modern dogs)
2. II. Spaniel Gentle or Comforter (Lap dogs)
3. III. Farm Dogs
   1. i. Canis Pastoalis or Shepherd’s Dogge (herding types)
   2. ii. Mastive or Bandogge,

called Canis Villacus or Carbenarius (more size/coat variance than modern dogs)

1. IV. Mongrels
   1. i. Admonitor or Wapp
   2. ii. Vernepator or Turnespet
   3. iii. Saltator or Dauncer

(above categories/comments in parenthesis from paper by Pavla de la Satu Mare (Paula Brewer)

‘A Treatise on Hunting in the Boke of St. Albans’ Dame Juliana Berners (Barnes or Bernes), England, first published in 1486. She had 14 categories and they were; Grehoun, Bastard, Mengrell, Mastiff, Lemor, Spanyel, Raches, Kenettyes, Teroures, Butchers’ Houndes, Myddyng dogges, Tryndel taylles, Prikherid currys, smalle ladyes’ poppees.