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John of Salisbury

Policraticus: Frivolities-Courtiers, Footprints-Philosophers

Greatest Danger to the Favorites of Fortune


Source Documents[1159] John of Salisbury, Frivolities of Courtiers and Footprints of Philosophers, Being a Translation of the First, Second and Third Books and Selections from the Seventh and Eight Books of the Policraticus [1159] of John of Salisbury, trans. Joseph Pike (University of Minnesota, 1938);Online at Constitution.org.

Who more bestial than he who, neglecting duties, rises at midnight, that with the aid of dogs keen of scent, his active huntsmen, his zealous comrades, and his retinue of devoted servants, at cost of time, labor, money, and effort, he may wage from earliest dawn till darkness his campaign against beasts?

Animal Rights History Timeline: Medieval [c485-1450]

Medieval Times-Dark Ages
Old-Middle English Literary Period


Animal Rights History-Timeline

[c1115-1180] John of Salisbury

[12th c.] Policraticus: Frivolities of Courtiers and Footprints of Philosophers
—The Greatest Danger to the Fravorites of Fortune
—Division of Functions- Political Organizations of the Ancients
—Hunting, Its Origin, Its Forms, and Its Practice, Lawful or Otherwise



The Bookworm, Carl Spitzweb
The Bookworm, Carl Spitzweg



Animal Rights History Timeline: Medieval [c485-1450]

Medieval Times-Dark Ages
Old-Middle English Literary Period


[—Activists-Advocates-Authors]
[—Medieval Prohibitions on Cruelty to Animals]


[Abstinence from Animal Food]
[Animal Rights Quotes]
[Animal Rights Law]
[Anti-Vivisection Quotes]
[Humane Education, Teaching Children Kindness to Animals]
[Hunting, Blood-Sports]
[Poetry-Plays; Humane Poets]
[Religion-Sermons]
[Souls, Immortality, Future Life]
[Humanity-Justice-Kindness]
[Intelligence-Reason-Emotion]
[Make Compassion the Fashion;
Beauty-Feathers-Fur-Leather]
[Quotes-Slavery of Animals]
[Strait from the Horse's Mouth:
Words from Animals Themselves]
[Vegetarians-Vegans; Cruelty of Slaughter, Abstinence-Animals]


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