The horse in premodern European culture /
This volume provides a unique introduction to the most topical issues, advances, and challenges in medieval horse history. Medievalists who have a long-standing interest in horse history, as well as those seeking to widen their understanding of horses in medieval society will find here informed and...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
Walter De Gruyter,
[2019]
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| Series: | Studies in medieval and early modern culture ;
70. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Ropa, Anastasija
- Part I: Working Horses and Their Equipment
- 1. Equestrian Cities: The Use of Riding Horses and Characteristics of Horse Husbandry in Late Medieval Urban Agglomerations / Meiers, Fabienne
- 2. Working Horses in the Northern European Countryside between the Thirteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: What Advantage for a Farm? / Bardoneschi, Floriana
- 3. Baggage Animals
- The Neglected Equines. An Introductory Survey of Their Varieties, Uses, and Equipping / Dawson, Timothy
- 4. Medieval Horse Harness
- The Evidence of the Images / Brownrigg, Gail
- Part II: Warhorses
- 5. Mounted Combat in Transition: The Transformation of the Eleventh Century / Gassmann, Jürg
- 6. The Use of the Crossbow in Medieval Cavalry / Gassmann, Jack
- Part III: Performing Horses
- 7. Reading Horses and Writing Chivalry / Campbell, Karen
- 8. How to Ride before a Prince: The Rise of Riding as a Performance Art / Jobst, Jennifer
- Part IV: Caring for Horses
- 9. How to Make a White Mark on a Black Horse: Middle English Hippiatric Medicine, Common Diseases, and Their Remedies / Cotterill, Elina H.
- 10. Bread for My Horses / Boniface, Katrin
- Part V: Material Cultures of Riding
- 11. Curbing Horsepower: The Archaeology of Curb Bits in Medieval England
- and Elsewhere / Clark, John
- 12. An Autopsy of Renaissance Equestrianism: The Materials, Making, and Use of a ca. 1535 War Saddle from the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Rennes / Viallon, Marina
- Part VI: The Represented Horse: Law, Administration, and Literature
- 13. The Horse in Welsh and Anglo-Saxon Law / Rops, Edgars
- 14. The Price and Value of the Warhorse in Late Medieval England / Ropa, Anastasija
- 15. The (Galloway) Horse and His Boy: Le Roman Des Aventures De Fregus and "The Best Breed in the North"? / Bibby, Miriam.