Publications and Presentations

Foreword
Introduction
• Katherine S. Kanne, ‘Envisioning Early Equestrianism: Clues from Archaeology and Ancient DNA’
• Carolyn Willekes, ‘Feminizing the Hippodrome: Finding the Female in a Male World’
• Anneli Sundkvist, ‘The Horses of the Bayeux Tapestry. Where the Art of Roman Riding Meets the Middle Ages’
• Emma Herbert-Davies, ‘Appraising the Warhorse: Restaurum Equorum in the Reigns of Edward I and II’
• Jennifer Jobst, ‘Horse head position in premodern times: A textual, iconographic, and archeological analysis’
• Marcin Ruda, ‘The Italian Influence on Equestrian Art in Europe in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries’
• Lisa Marieke Kyre, ‘An Experimental Case Study of Pluvinel’s Horse Training around the Single Pillar’
• Anastasija Ropa, ‘Groundwork with Horses: Learning from Medieval and Early Modern Treatises’
• Jane Badger and Timothy George Dawson, ‘Playing chicken: the early history and modern revival of an ancient game’
• Sarah Sargent, ‘Foxhunting and Classical Horsemanship as Social Performance of Elitism and Power: A Journey Across Time’

Introduction: Of Horses and Humans in the Medieval World
Part I: Socially Formative Horses
• Anna-Lena Lange, ‘Horses as Status Indicators in Wolfram’s Parzival’
• Romain Lefebvre, ‘The Role of the Horse in Tangut Society’
• Rebecca Henderson, ‘Hrafn ok Sleipnir, hestar ágætir: Horses of the Medieval North’
• Agnès Carayon, ‘City of the Cavalrymen and House of the Rider. “Landscaped hippodromes” and Stable-palaces in Mamlûk Cairo’
Part II: Literary Horses
John C. Ford, ‘Ful nobelelike upon a stede or Overþwert upon an asse: Significance of Equid Mounts and Other Quadrupeds in the Middle English Verse Romances’
• Alexia-Foteini Stamouli, ‘Information about Horses from Middle Byzantine Hagiographical Texts’
• Luise Borek, ‘Dead Horses in Arthurian Romance (and Beyond)’
• Gloria Allaire, ‘Horse Descriptions in the Unedited Prose Rinaldo da Montalbano’
Part III: Martial Horses
• Jürg Gassmann, ‘Vegetius, Arrian and the Battlefield Cavalry Formations of Medieval Europe’
independent researcher, Ireland • Maria S. A. Rodrigues, ‘Hunting, Jousting, and Fighting on Horseback according to King João I and King Duarte of Portugal’
• Loïs Forster, ‘The Typology of Horses in Burgundian Chronicles of the Fifteenth Century’
Part IV: The Harware of the Horse – real and symbolic
• Gail Brownrigg, ‘The Origin of the Horse Collar’
• Rena Maguire, ‘Get off your High Horse: An Examination of Changes in Lorinery and Equitation in the Irish Early Medieval Period AD 400 to 700’
• Gavina Cherchi, ‘Unbridled Horses and Knights Errant’
Conclusion
• Anastasija Ropa, ‘Gendering Horse Riders in Medieval Romance and Modern Racing Media’.

Introduction
Part I: Working Horses and Their Equipment
• Fabienne Meiers, ‘Equestrian Cities: The Use of Riding Horses and Characteristics of Horse Husbandry in Late Medieval Urban Agglomerations’
• Floriana Bardoneschi, ‘Working Horses in the Northern European Countryside 13th to 16th Centuries: What Advantage for a Farm?’
• Timothy Dawson, ‘Baggage Animals – The Neglected Equines. An Introductory Survey of Their Varieties, Uses, and Equipping’
• Gail Brownrigg, ‘Medieval Horse Harness – The Evidence of the Images’
Part II: Warhorses
• Jürg Gassmann, ‘Mounted Combat in Transition: The Transformation of the Eleventh Century’
• Jack Gassmann, T‘he Use of the Crossbow in Medieval Cavalry’
Part III: Performing Horses
Karen Campbell, • ‘Reading Horses and Writing Chivalry’
• Jennifer Jobst, ‘How to Ride before a Prince: The Rise of Riding as a Performance Art’
Part IV: Caring for Horsesqq
• Elina H. Cotterill, ‘How to Make a White Mark on a Black Horse: Middle English Hippiatric Medicine, Common Diseases, and Their Remedies’
• Katrin Boniface, ‘Bread for My Horses’
Part V: Material Cultures of Riding
• John Clark, ‘Curbing Horsepower: The Archaeology of Curb Bits in Medieval England – and Elsewhere’
• Marina Viallon, ‘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’
• Edgars Rops, ‘The Horse in Welsh and Anglo-Saxon Law’
• Anastasija Ropa, ‘The Price and Value of the Warhorse in Late Medieval England’
• Miriam Bibby, ‘The (Galloway) Horse and His Boy: Le Roman Des Aventures De Fregus and “The Best Breed in the North”?’

A reconstruction of a tenth-century Byzantine heavy cavalryman assembled by illustrate the volume.

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