Gaston Phébus, Livre de la Chasse, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS Fr. 616, f.40v. Source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF

Few scholarly articles on medieval topics become internet sensations, but Professor David Scott-Macnab’s “The Names of All Manner of Hounds: A Unique Inventory in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript,” published in 2013, was that one in a million.^[1] The article features a list of no fewer than 1065 names for hounds–alphabetically ordered from “Argente” to “Yonkir”–prefaced by a discussion of the great affection medieval hunters felt for their hounds.^[2] Many bloggers picked up the article; it has been the topic of several Reddit conversations, and one fan even used its list of names to create a dog-name generator. Continue reading “An interview with the author of “The Names of All Manner of Hounds,” David Scott-Macnab” →