The arrows depicted in his ‘The Book of the Hunt’ match this description quite well. Gaston Phoebus (1331-1391), the Count of Foix and most famous hunting author of the late Middle Ages recommends two-bladed arrowheads, ‘well sharpened and filed’, which should be ‘five fingers long and exactly four fingers wide’ between the barbs. Here we find arrows not only in image, but also in descriptive texts, which finally offer some details on their manufacture and use. The noble hunt on the other hand increasingly became the subject of illustrated manuscripts from the 14th century onwards. Bows and arrows were a favourite hunting weapon for both nobles and common folk – even though the hunting practices of the latter were usually classed as poaching and are mainly documented in court protocols and other judicial documents.
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