Lecturer in Public Humanities & Museum Studies and art historian Dr. Becky Pratt-Sturges presented the paper, “Flesh Rendered on Gilded Pages: Representations of Meat in Late Medieval Hunting Manuals” at the conference Popular Culture and the Deep Past 2022: The Experimental Archaeology of Medieval and Renaissance Food” at the Ohio State University Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies on February 11, 2022. Her paper explored the illuminations of the medieval ritual of unmaking, which involved the dismembering of the stag and boar, as part of the social performance of the noble hunt in the fourteenth century, of the manuscript Le livre de chasse.
