The Various Reasons for Killing Wolves in the Fifteenth-Century Liberty of Bruges
Kristiaan Dillen
In the fifteenth-century Liberty of Bruges, a rural castellany in county Flanders, bounty system was established to promote elimination wolves. Prize money made wolf not only an unwanted but also actively tracked animal, combination that resulted its wholescale slaughter. Researchers who have previously examined these bounties believed they were primarily part pest control. They did realise, however, inhabitants came forward claim killed wolves clear Bruges vermin for entirely different reasons, which depended on context encounters with occurred. this text, I use records concerning by understand complex relationships between humans and castellany. first introduce long series records; thereafter, attempt identify reasons killing contexts such killings
Environment and History