IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 508: Horses across Europe
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 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, Independent Scholar, Latvia |
| Paper 508-a | The Typology of Horses in Burgundian Chronicles of the 15th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Military History, Social History |
| Paper 508-b | 'Hrafn ok Sleipnir, hestar ágætir': Horses of the Medieval North (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Daily Life, Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
| Paper 508-c | Remembering Vegetius and Arrian: Cavalry Tactics and Training in the Early Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Military History, Performance Arts - General, Technology |
| Paper 508-d | Horses as Military Force Multipliers in Medieval Europe (Language: English) Index terms: Military History, Social History |
| Abstract | This is one of four sessions dedicated to the medieval horse. The diversity of horses and equestrian practices across Europe is far beyond the somewhat stereotyped representation of the knight and his horses. To gauge the place of the horse in daily reality and contemporary imagination, the contributors consider diverse sources, such as chronicles, military treatises, and works of literature produced in the time range from the early to the late medieval period on territories as far apart as Iceland and Burgundy, to mention but two. This wide historical and geographical distribution helps us to compare, in combination with other sessions of the series, the meaning of the horse - or horses - in Europe and countries of the east (session 'Horses in the Orient') and the signature the horse left on material culture and technology (session 'Equestrian Equipment') as well as cultural production (session Horses in 'Courtly Literature'). |