Join us on November 17, 2022 to learn more about the newly released book Echoing Hooves: Studies on Horses and Their Effects on Medieval Societies, volume 22 in Brill’s Explorations in Medieval Culture series, edited by Anastasija Ropa and Timothy Dawson.
Where: Online- register through this link.
When: 9:00am-12:00pm PST/12:00pm-3:00pm EST/6:00pm-9:00 pm CET
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.
In this coffee chat the editors and several of the chapter authors will talk about their research and this book as we look at how and why the horse was so important to medieval society.
Anastasija Ropa 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 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. Timothy will introduce the book project.
Gavina Cherchi is Associate Professor in Aesthetics at the University of Sassari. She is co-founder of the Association Warburg Italia (Siena 1999) and a member of the SIE (Società Italiana di Estetica). Her interdisciplinary scientific research investigates history of ideas, iconology and philosophy (images and words, the iconosphere and the logosphere) in their mutual and osmotic relationship.
John C. Ford is a maître de conférences (senior lecturer/associate professor) at the National University Institute Champollion, member of the Université Fédérale de Toulouse in Albi, France. Former head of the Department of Languages and Literature and current head of the department’s English section, he has published several articles relating to medieval English and Anglo-Norman language and literature, focusing particularly on the Middle English verse romances.
Jürg Gassmann is an independent researcher in mediaval military history, with several peer-reviewed publications on the subject, including articles in the Acta Periodica Duellatorum.
Alexia-Foteini Stamouli is affiliated to the University of Patras, Greece. Her main interests include Byzantine Hagiography (Middle and Late Byzantine period), Byzantine History (Late Byzantine period), Rhetoric (descriptions and praises). She is a collaborator of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, Institute of Historical Research.
