The EHC is thrilled to host a roundtable Thursday, May 28, featuring authors from the recent collection The Horse in Premodern European Culture (Medieval Institute Publications, 2020). The editors, Anastasija Ropa and Timothy Dawson, will address the origins of the book, and contributors will discuss their particular chapter, followed by a Q&A.
Panelists:
- Fabienne Meiers, “Equestrian Cities: The Use of Riding Horses and Characteristics of Horse Husbandry in Late Medieval Urban Agglomerations”
- Timothy Dawson, “Baggage Animals – The Neglected Equines. An Introductory Survey of Their Varieties, Uses, and Equipping”
- Jürg Gassmann, “Mounted Combat in Transition: The Transformation of the Eleventh Century”
- Jack Gassmann, “The Use of the Crossbow in Medieval Cavalry”
- Karen Campbell, “Reading Horses and Writing Chivalry”
- Jennifer Jobst, “How to Ride before a Prince: The Rise of Riding as a Performance Art”
- Katrin Boniface, “Bread for My Horses”
- 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”
- 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’?”
Time: Thursday, May 28, 2020, 5pm BST/noon EDT/9 am PDT
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Banner image: Detail of a miniature of two horses and two men, from the Rochester Bestiary, England (Rochester?), c. 1230,Royal MS 12 F XIII, f. 42v