Echoing Hooves: Studies on Horses and Their Effects on Medieval Societies

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-46648-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 755 g

Reihe: Explorations in Medieval Culture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ropa, Anastasija

Dawson, Timothy George

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.