The Horse in Premodern European Culture /

The Horse in Premodern European Culture / / ed. by Anastasija Ropa, Timothy Dawson.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Bardoneschi, Floriana,
Bibby, Miriam,
Boniface, Katrin,
Brownrigg, Gail,
Campbell, Karen,
Clark, John,
Cotterill, Elina H.,
Dawson, Timothy,
Gassmann, Jack,
Gassmann, Jürg,
Jobst, Jennifer,
Meiers, Fabienne,
Ropa, Anastasija,
Rops, Edgars,
Viallon, Marina,
HerausgeberIn:
Dawson, Timothy,
Ropa, Anastasija,
Place / Publishing House:Kalamazoo, MI : : Medieval Institute Publications, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture , 70
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 259 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • 2. Working Horses in the Northern European Countryside between the Thirteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: What Advantage for a Farm?
  • 3. Baggage Animals – The Neglected Equines. An Introductory Survey of Their Varieties, Uses, and Equipping
  • 4. Medieval Horse Harness – The Evidence of the Images
  • Part II: Warhorses
  • 5. Mounted Combat in Transition: The Transformation of the Eleventh Century
  • 6. The Use of the Crossbow in Medieval Cavalry
  • Part III: Performing Horses
  • 7. Reading Horses and Writing Chivalry
  • 8. How to Ride before a Prince: The Rise of Riding as a Performance Art
  • 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
  • 10. Bread for My Horses
  • Part V: Material Cultures of Riding
  • 11. Curbing Horsepower: The Archaeology of Curb Bits in Medieval England – and Elsewhere
  • 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
  • Part VI: The Represented Horse: Law, Administration, and Literature
  • 13. The Horse in Welsh and Anglo-Saxon Law
  • 14. The Price and Value of the Warhorse in Late Medieval England
  • 15. The (Galloway) Horse and His Boy: Le Roman Des Aventures De Fregus and “The Best Breed in the North”?
  • Index of Personal Name
  • Index of Place
  • General Index

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