IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1004: The Horse in Courtly Literature
Wednesday 5 July 2017, 09.00-10.30
| Organisers: | Timothy Dawson, Independent Scholar, Leeds Anastasija Ropa, Department of Management & Communication Science, Latvian Academy of Sport Education, Riga |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Edgar Rops, Faculty of Law, University of Latvia, Riga |
| Paper 1004-a | More Expensive than Racing Cars: The Value of Horses in Romance (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Celtic, Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - French or Occitan |
| Paper 1004-b | Writing Bodies, Riding Equipment, Reading Horses: The Equestrian Canon and Code of Chivalry (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Archaeology - Artefacts, Language and Literature - Comparative, Mentalities |
| Paper 1004-c | How to Ride before a Prince: The Rise of Riding as a Performance Art (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Language and Literature - Comparative, Mentalities, Performance Arts - General |
| Abstract | Horses are prominent in a variety of courtly literatures - from romance to treatises on chivalry in the High and Late Middle Ages, and, at the end of the medieval period, the first riding manuals compete for attention among other, increasingly varying, treatises of instruction. In the session, the speakers examine the characteristics marking elite horses and riders. In particular, the papers testify to the changing standards of horsemanship from the 13th century into the early modern period, when riding skill evolves into an art of horsemanship and, later, a performance. |