Description
Book SynopsisNew things are forgotten old things – this rediscovery of the past is especially important in horsemanship and equestrian sports. Despite advances in sciences and technology, the physiologies and psychologies of the two principal agents, the equid and the human, have undergone relatively few changes since horse domestication.
The studies collected in this volume outline such essential and recurring challenges in equestrianism as gender issues, equine identification, the use of hyperflexion and groundwork in training, as well as many others, from prehistory to this day.
Table of Contents
- Foreword — Jason Kingsley
- Introduction. Continuities of Equestrian Practices — Anastasija Ropa
- CHAPTER 1: Envisioning Early Equestrianism: Clues from Archaeology and Ancient DNA — Katherine S. Kanne
- CHAPTER 2: Feminizing the Hippodrome: Finding the Female in a Male World — Carolyn Willekes
- CHAPTER 3: The Horses of the Bayeux Tapestry: Where the Art of Roman Riding Meets the Middle — Ages Anneli Sundkvist
- CHAPTER 4: Appraising the Warhorse: Restaurum Equorum in the Reigns of Edward I and II — Emma Herbert-Davies
- CHAPTER 5: Horse Head Position in Premodern Times: A Textual, Iconographic, and Archeological Analysis — Jennifer Jobst
- CHAPTER 6: Groundwork with Horses: Learning from Medieval and Early Modern Treatises — Anastasija Ropa
- CHAPTER 7: The Italian Influence on Equestrian Art in Europe in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries — Marcin Ruda
- CHAPTER 8: An Experimental Case Study of Pluvinel's Horse Training around the Single Pillar — Lisa Marieke Kyre
- CHAPTER 9: Playing Chicken: The Early History and Modern Revival of an Ancient Game — Jane Badger & Timothy George Dawson
- CHAPTER 10: Fox-hunting and Classical Horsemanship as Social Performance of Elitism and Power: A Journey Across Time — Sarah Sargent
- CHAPTER 11: Retrospective: Michel Henriquet on the Vanishing Point of Lightness — Kip Mistral
- List of Contributors
