Echoing hooves : studies on horses and their effects on medieval societies / edited by Anastasija Ropa, Timothy Dawson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ropa, Anastasija, editor.

Dawson, Timothy (Timothy George), editor.

Series:

Explorations in medieval culture ; v. 22.

Explorations in medieval culture ; volume 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horses--Social aspects--Europe.

Horses.

Horsemanship--Social aspects--Europe.

Horsemanship.

Cavalry--Europe--History--To 1500.

Cavalry.

Animals and civilization--Europe.

Animals and civilization.

Horses in literature.

Horsemanship in literature.

Civilization, Medieval.

Horsemanship--Social aspects.

Horses--Social aspects.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 360 pages ; illustrations (some color), map, 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Of horses and humans in the medieval world / Anastasija Ropa

Horses as status indicators in Wolfram's Parzival / Anna-Lena Lange

The role of the horse in Tangut Society / Romain Lefebvre

"Hrafn ok Sleipnir, hestar ágætir" : horses of the medieval north / Rebecca Henderson

City of the cavalrymen and house of the rider : 'landscaped hippodromes' and stable-palaces in Mamluk Cairo / Agnès Carayon

Travel in the Middle English 'matter of England' romances, and the changing significations of horses and horsemanship / John C. Ford

Information of Middle Byzantine hagiographical texts about equids / Alexia-Foteini Stamouli

Dead horses in Arthurian romance (and Beyond) / Luise Borek

Horse descriptions in the unedited prose Rinaldo da Montalbano (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana MS Pluteus 42, codex 37) / Gloria Allaire

Vgetius, Arrian and the battlefield cavalry formations of medieval Europe / Jürg Gassmann

Hunting, jousting, and fighting on horseback according to King João I and King Duarte of Portugal / Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues

The typology of horses in Burgundian chronicles of the fifteenth century / Loïs Forster

The origin of the horse collar / Gail Brownrigg

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

Unbridled horses and knights errant / Gavina Cherchi

Conclusion: Gendering horse riders in medieval romance and modern racing media / Anastasija Ropa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Echoing hooves

ISBN:

9789004466487

9004466487

OCLC:

1301487176

Publisher Number:

40031265650