Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Anastasija Ropa is a guest lecturer at the Latvian Academy of Sport Education and affiliated researcher at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Latvia. She has presented at international conferences and published on human and animal relations in medieval literature and illumination.
Timothy Dawson is an independent scholar based at Leeds. He holds a doctoral degree from the University of New England on the dress and regalia in medieval Byzantium. He has published on martial culture and its materiality in Europe and Byzantium.
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 comprehensive treatment of chapters from disciplines as diverse as archaeology, legal, economic and military history, urban and rural history, art and literature. The themes range from case studies of saddles and bridles, to hippiatric treatises, to the medieval origins of dressage literary studies. It shows the ubiquitous – and often ambiguous – role of the horse in medieval culture, where it was simultaneously a treasured animal and a means of transport, a military machine and a loyal companion. The contributors, many of whom have practical knowledge of horses, are drawn from established and budding scholars working in their areas of expertise.
Introduction by Anastasija Ropa
I. Working Horses and Their Equipment
Equestrian Cities: Use of Riding Horses and Characteristics of Horse Husbandry in Late Medieval Urban Agglomerations by Fabienne Meiers
Working Horses in the Northern European Countryside between the Thirteenth and the Sixteenth Centuries: What Advantage for a Farm? by Floriana Bardoneschi
Baggage Animals - The Neglected Equines: An Introductory Survey of Their Varieties, Uses, and Equipping by Timothy Dawson Medieval Horse Harness - The Evidence of the Images by Gail Brownrigg
II. Warhorses
Mounted Combat in Transition: The Transformation of the Eleventh Century by Jürg Gassmann
Use of the Crossbow in Medieval Cavalry by Jack Gassmann
III. Performing Horses
Reading Horses and Writing Chivalry by Karen Campbell
How to Ride before a Prince: The Art of Riding as a Performance Art by Jennifer Jobst
IV. Caring for Horses
How to Make a White Mark on a Black Horse: Middle English Hippiatric Medicine, Common Diseases, and Their Remedies by Elina H. Cotterill
Bread for my Horses by Katrin Boniface
V. Material Cultures of Riding
Curbing Horsepower: The Archaeology of Curb Bits in Medieval England--and Elsewhere by John Clark
An Autopsy of Renaissance Equestrianism: The Materials, Making, and Use of a ca. 1535 War Saddle from the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Rennes by Marina Viallon
VI. The Represented Horse: Law, Administration, and Literature
The Horse in Welsh and Anglo-Saxon Law by Edgars Rops
Price and Value of the Horse in Late Medieval England by Anastasija Ropa
The (Galloway) Horse and His Boy: Le Roman des Aventures de Fregus and "The Best Breed in the North"? by Miriam Bibby
Index of Personal Name
Index of Place
General Index
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Anastasija Ropa is a guest lecturer at the Latvian Academy of Sport Education and affiliated researcher at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Latvia. She has presented at international conferences and published on human and animal relations in medieval literature and illumination.
Timothy Dawson is an independent scholar based at Leeds. He holds a doctoral degree from the University of New England on the dress and regalia in medieval Byzantium. He has published on martial culture and its materiality in Europe and Byzantium.