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Sumptuary laws might have been part of it. But likely it was that natural resources were all highly regulated by the end of the Middle Ages in Western Europe. That was especially true of hunting and fishing rights (even things like taking firewood from a forest could be regulated), so I imagine that keeping animals like pigeons were an offshoot of those kinds of customary rights and laws.


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