Une génération de gestion animale au début du XIV^e siècle : la comptabilité du territoire d'élevage et de chasse d'Hesdin (Pas-de-Calais, France)

The first goal of this article is an evaluation of the accounting sources to describe animal management from 1300 to 1315 in the breeding and hunting territory of the palatial residence of the counts of Artois and Flander at Hesdin. The ultimate goal consists in the setting up of a written database of a breeding and hunting territory Three main aspects of animal management have been discussed: 1) as the human will to draw up an inventory of the animals of a given territory; 2) as the anthropic ability to modulate reproduction and ages of some animals; 3) and finally by understanding management from its classical definition, which is the numerical evaluation of animals by man and moreover with the controlling methods that are rhythms and hunting seasons.