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Acknowledgments
First and foremost, I would like to express my gratitude to my co-editor Timothy Dawson, whose wide-ranging expertise in equestrian history, and whose creative but exacting approach and attention to minute details made editing this volume so much easier. Next, I would like to thank my colleagues, who generously shared their expertise on various aspects of medieval equestrianism, among them John Clark, Brian Scott, Jennifer Jobst, Hylke Hettema, Karen Campbell and Miriam Bibby, as well as many others. I am also grateful to the International Medieval Congress, who accepted our application for horse history sessions in 2018, where many, though not all the papers included in the present volume were presented, and to the attendees, whose questions and contributions to discussion provided useful feedback both to individual authors and to us as volume editors in general. Unfortunately, not all of our authors will be able to share the joys of holding this volume in their hands: Rebecca Henderson’s paper, who died in 2019, was submitted posthumously. I would like to thank her family for allowing to publish the study, as well as Rebecca’s former supervisor, Dr Sian Gronlie, who has edited the paper for publication, supplying incomplete references, adding quotations in Old Icelandic where necessary, and bringing the chapter to publication standard in terms of layout and style. Our gratitude is also due to the Brill series editor Larissa Tracy, for her initial enthusiasm and continuing support throughout the project, and to Marcella Murder, for her careful and patient guidance throughout various stages of publication.
We are equally thankful to the anonymous reviewer of the volume, whose feedback made us, and the authors, see our work from a new perspective. I am likewise grateful to the Latvian Academy of Sport Education, for allowing me to use their research resources outside working hours, which greatly contributed to completing this volume. Also, my colleagues have provided useful feedback on various aspects of my work in the history of equestrianism. Last, but by far not least, I would like to thank my family for their moral support throughout this project, for their allowing me to work at all hours, including some very ungodly hours. My husband Edgar, who is also a legal historian with an interest in equine and equestrian studies, provided feedback on early drafts of the volume, and my two wonderful sons were extremely accepting of their mum’s work. It is unusual to thank one’s pets, but my two horses, Fizz and Esmeralda, contributed considerably to this and other horse history projects I have been engaged in by being sources of inspiration. The fact that Fizz is an English Thoroughbred and an old ex-racing horse, who remains very enthusiastic of galloping and jumping at the advanced age of twenty, stimulated my initial interest in the history and sociology of horse racing. Anastasija Ropa
Notes on Contributors
Gloria Allaire (Ph.D. in Italian, University of Wisconsin; M.A. in Italian, University of Wisconsin; B.M. (Music Education), University of Wisconsin) is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Kentucky. Her research interests encompass chivalric literature in Italian, including both Carolingian cycle epics and Arthurian romances, as well as manuscript editing, codicology and paleography and, naturally, equestrian studies. Her publications include Andrea da Barberino and the Language of Chivalry (University Press of Florida, 1997), Il Tristano panciatichiano (critical edition with English translation, Boydell and Brewer, 2002), and Il Tristano corsiniano (edition with English translation, Brewer, 2015). She has presented several conference papers on horses in Italian chivalric literature and published the chapter ‘Dante Equestrian’. As a dressage rider and horse person for over twenty years, she offers insights into Italian literary examples, thereby forming a connection between medieval and modern horse use.
Luise Borek (Ph.D., Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, 2017; M.A., Technische Universität Braunschweig, 2008) is a medievalist and digital philologist at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. Her research interests are literary animal studies, Arthurian literature, lexicography and semantic classification. As a former member of DARIAH-DE (part of the ESFRI-Project DARIAH-EU) she is working to raise an awareness for digital research in the arts and humanities. She has recently finished her Ph.D. in medieval studies with a study entitled Arthurische Pferde als Bedeutungsträger. Eine Fallstudie zu ihrer digitalen Klassifizierung (“Arthurian horses as carriers of meaning. A case study on digital classification”, to be published).
Gail Brownrigg is an independent scholar with a special interest in the history of harness and has presented work in this area at numerous conferences, including the conference of the European Association of Archaeologists. She has published a paper with Joost Crouwel in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology on the evidence for Roman harness as a forerunner to the medieval horse collar, which is generally presumed to be a medieval invention, as well as other articles on ancient and medieval equestrian equipment and horsemanship practices.
Agnès Carayon (Ph.D. in History, Université de Provence Aix-Marseille) defended in 2012 a Ph.D. on the equestrian culture ( fûrûsiyya, in Arabic) of the Mamlûks’ dynasty, who ruled over Egypt and Syria from 1250 to 1517. The Mamlûks are deemed to be the archetype of cavalrymen of the Muslim word in the Middle Ages. This work attempts to give a general view of their highly complete equestrian culture, treating the rich technical literature they have transmitted, their war culture (training, horses, arms and armors, technics) as well as the numerous societal manifestations involved by their cavalrymen status. Agnès Carayon had previously investigated Berber cavalry in Morocco and Al-Andalus. She now works in the Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris), where she has been curator of further exhibitions.
Gavina Cherchi graduated in Moral Philosophy at the University of Pisa (supervisor, late Professor Vittorio Sainati) and has been awarded Warburg Institute Ph.D. in Combined Historical Studies (supervisor, Professor Jill Kraye), London University. She 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.
Timothy Dawson (Ph.D., University of New England) is independent scholar based in the UK. He holds a doctoral degree from the University of New England on the dress and regalia in medieval Byzantium, published as By the Emperor’s Hand: court regalia and military dress in the Eastern Roman Empire, c.600–1453 (Frontline Books, 2015). He has published extensively on martial culture and its materiality in Europe and Byzantium, as well as other works on Byzantine dress and footwear and has acted as co-editor to A Companion to Medieval Fightbook Literature (Brill, 2016). He has been organizing workshops and displays at the International Medieval Congress, in particular, displays by Levantia in 2016 and 2017, where reconstructions of medieval equestrian equipment were displayed. He has co-edited, with Anastasija Ropa, a volume The Horse in Premodern European Culture (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2020).
John C. Ford (B.A. (W&L), M.Phil., Ph.D. (Glasgow)), 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.
Loïs Forster (Ph.D., Laboratoire IRHiS, University of Lille 3, France) has completed a Ph.D. dedicated to knights and men-at-arms in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in Burgundian lands. Part-time teacher of history and geography, he has been rewarded for academic work by becoming beneficiary of the French Ministry of Defense. Studying chivalric combat and mentality, both in formal combats and on battlefields, he takes the advantage of a rich point of view permitted by the combination of his multiple activities as an academic researcher, a teacher, a fighter, a rider and a jouster.
Jürg Gassmann (graduate degree in Law with a specialization in Roman law and Swiss constitutional law; Zurich University, Ph.D. Geheimnisschutz, Informationsfreiheit und Medien im japanischen Recht; Zurich University, researched as a visiting research fellow at Tokyo University) is an independent researcher in mediaeval military history, with several peer-reviewed publications on the subject, including articles in the Acta Periodica Duellatorum.
Rebecca Henderson (d. 2019)studied for a M.St. in Medieval Studies at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford. Her focus was on the literature and culture of medieval Scandinavia, with particular emphasis on medieval translation theory and practice, in particular the riddarasögur.
Romain Lefebvre (Ph.D. in Chinese Studies) is Associate Professor at Artois University, teaching the history of China from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries. His research interests encompass Tangut philology, Tangut history, the Silk Road, and Buddhism. He has published several articles regarding the Tangut society and its many representations in literature, numismatics and medicine.
Anna-Lena Lange (M.A., Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel) currently works on her Ph.D. thesis on Old Irish influences on islendigasögur. She has studied German and Scandinavian Literature at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. She earned her M.A. in 2016 with a thesis on the reception of the concept of knighthood in Iceland based on the translated Arthurian romances. Her research methodology is building on intertextuality, and her main research interests next to islendigasögur are Arthurian romances and their transmission throughout Europe.
Rena Maguire (Ph.D. in Archaeology, Irish Iron Age Horse Tack in its Insular and Continental Context of Design, Function and Depositional Practice, and M.Sc. in Environmental Archaeology, Queen’s University Belfast). Maguire is currently a Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology and Palaeoecology, School of Natural and Built Environment at Queen’s University Belfast. She has a particular interest in the horse and its associated material culture, and the manufacture techniques which go with them, seeing the horse in archaeology as a factor which touches on every aspect of late prehistoric and early medieval life, from metallurgy to grazing landscapes. She is especially interested in exploring how people lived in the past, and is both a senior editor and contributor with equine-based case studies of EXARC, the Experimental Archaeology Journal. She is an active member of Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and various Irish scholarly societies.
Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues (M.A., University of Paris IV-Sorbonne, 1981; Ph.D. University of Minho, 1992; “Agregação”, University of Minho, 2002) is Full Professor at the University of Lisbon; previously, she lectured at the University of Minho and was Deputy Coordinator of the National Commission for the Commemoration of the Portuguese Discoveries. She has extensively written on court culture and recreation.
Anastasija Ropa (Ph.D., Arthurian Literature, Bangor University, Gwynedd; M.A., English Literature, University of Latvia) is lead researcher at the Latvian Academy of Sport Education, Department of Sport Management and Communication Science. She has presented at international conferences and published articles on medieval and modern Arthurian literature, aspects of the history of medieval Livonia, on medieval animal studies, and on equestrian history. She has been one of the organizers (with Timothy Dawson) of sessions on medievalequestrian history at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds, since 2016. She is the author of Practical Horsemanship in Medieval Arthurian Romance (Trivent, 2019) and has co-edited, with Timothy Dawson, a volume The Horse in Premodern European Culture (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2020).
Alexia-Foteini Stamouli (Ph.D., University of the Peloponnese, School of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Department of History, Archaeology and Cultural Resources Management; Byzantine Literature Postgraduate Studies: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Philosophy, Department of Philology; Studies in Classical Philology: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Philosophy, Department of Philology) 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.
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