IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 507: The Physical Horse
Tuesday 4 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: | John Clark, Museum of London |
| Paper 507-a | Peasant Horse Breeding in Late Medieval England (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Rural, Economics - Trade |
| Paper 507-b | How to Make a White Mark on a Black Horse: Middle English Hippiatric Treatises, Common Diseases, and Their Remedies (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Medicine |
| Paper 507-c | 'Let no one sell the horse overseas': Reflecting on the Importance of Horses in the Anglo-Saxon Law Texts (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Law |
| Abstract | The session on the physical horse refers to the practicalities of keeping, treating, breeding, and trading horses in England and other areas of Europe over the Middle Ages. The horses appear as subjects of legislation and trade, appraised according to statutory values, as subjects of veterinary care and an indispensable part of the medieval economy and agriculture. The papers signal the complexities involved in dealing with actual horses, the often unsavoury details of their bodily existence, as well as testifying, again, to the indispensability of the horse in medieval society. |