Echoing Hooves: Studies on Horses and Their Effects on Medieval Societies
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Echoing Hooves: Studies on Horses and Their Effects on Medieval Societies: (22 Explorations in Medieval Culture)

Echoing Hooves: Studies on Horses and Their Effects on Medieval Societies: (22 Explorations in Medieval Culture)


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Saying that horses shaped the medieval world – and the way we see it today – is hardly an exaggeration. Why else do we imagine a medieval knight – or a nomadic warrior – on horseback? Why do we use such metaphors as “unbridled” or “bearing a yoke” in our daily language? Studies of medieval horses and horsemanship are increasingly popular, but they often focus on a single aspect of equestrianism or a single culture. In this book, you will find information about both elite and humble working equines, about the ideology and practicalities of medieval horsemanship across different countries, from Iceland to China. Contributors are Gloria Allaire, Luise Borek, Gail Brownrigg, Agnès Carayon, Gavina Cherchi, John C. Ford, Loïs Forster, Jürg Gassmann, Rebecca Henderson, Anna-Lena Lange, Romain Lefebvre, Rena Maguire, Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues, and Alexia-Foteini Stamouli.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Of Horses and Humans in the Medieval World  Anastasija Ropa Part 1: Socially Formative Horses 1 Horses as Status Indicators in Wolfram’s Parzival  Anna-Lena Lange 2 The Role of the Horse in Tangut Society  Romain Lefebvre 3 “Hrafn ok Sleipnir, hestar ágætir”: Horses of the Medieval North  Rebecca Henderson 4 City of the Cavalrymen and House of the Rider: ‘Landscaped Hippodromes’ and Stable-Palaces in Mamluk Cairo  Agnès Carayon Part 2: Literary Horses 5 Travel in the Middle English ‘Matter of England’ Romances, and the Changing Significations of Horses and Horsemanship  John C. Ford 6 Information of Middle Byzantine Hagiographical Texts about Equids  Alexia-Foteini Stamouli 7 Dead Horses in Arthurian Romance (and Beyond)  Luise Borek 8 Horse Descriptions in the Unedited Prose Rinaldo da Montalbano (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana MS Pluteus 42, codex 37)  Gloria Allaire Part 3: Martial Horses 9 Vegetius, Arrian and the Battlefield Cavalry Formations of Medieval Europe  Jürg Gassmann 10 Hunting, Jousting, and Fighting on Horseback according to King João I and King Duarte of Portugal  Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues 11 The Typology of Horses in Burgundian Chronicles of the Fifteenth Century  Loïs Forster Part 4: The Hardware of the Horse – Real and Symbolic 12 The Origin of the Horse Collar  Gail Brownrigg 13 Get off your High Horse: An Examination of Changes in Lorinery and Equitation in the Irish Early Medieval Period AD 400 to 700  Rena Maguire 14 Unbridled Horses and Knights Errant  Gavina Cherchi Conclusion: Gendering Horse Riders in Medieval Romance and Modern Racing Media  Anastasija Ropa Select Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Anastasija Ropa, Ph.D. (2014), Bangor University, is senior researcher at the Latvian Academy of Sport Education. She has published extensively on aspects of medieval horse history and horsemanship, including the monograph Practical Horsemanship in Medieval Arthurian Romance (Trivent Medieval, 2019). Timothy Dawson, Ph.D. (2003), University of New England, is a UK-based independent scholar and founder of Levantia. He has authored numerous academic publications on medieval Byzantium, the history of horsemanship and cavalry and various aspects of daily life in Europe and the Near East.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789004466487
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 362
  • Series Title: 22 Explorations in Medieval Culture
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 9004466487
  • Publisher Date: 07 Jul 2022
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 752 gr


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