Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I: Working Horses and Their Equipment
5. 1. Equestrian Cities: The Use of Riding Horses and Characteristics of Horse Husbandry in Late Medieval Urban Agglomerations 13
6. 2. Working Horses in the Northern European Countryside between the Thirteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: What Advantage for a Farm? 27
7. 3. Baggage Animals – The Neglected Equines. An Introductory Survey of Their Varieties, Uses, and Equipping 45
8. 4. Medieval Horse Harness – The Evidence of the Images 55
9. Part II: Warhorses
10. 5. Mounted Combat in Transition: The Transformation of the Eleventh Century 71
11. 6. The Use of the Crossbow in Medieval Cavalry 87
12. Part III: Performing Horses
13. 7. Reading Horses and Writing Chivalry 107
14. 8. How to Ride before a Prince: The Rise of Riding as a Performance Art 123
15. Part IV: Caring for Horses
16. 9. How to Make a White Mark on a Black Horse: Middle English Hippiatric Medicine, Common Diseases, and Their Remedies 147
17. 10. Bread for My Horses 161
18. Part V: Material Cultures of Riding
19. 11. Curbing Horsepower: The Archaeology of Curb Bits in Medieval England – and Elsewhere 177
20. 12. An Autopsy of Renaissance Equestrianism: The Materials, Making, and Use of a ca. 1535 War Saddle from the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Rennes 193
21. Part VI: The Represented Horse: Law, Administration, and Literature
22. 13. The Horse in Welsh and Anglo-Saxon Law 205
23. 14. The Price and Value of the Warhorse in Late Medieval England 219
24. 15. The (Galloway) Horse and His Boy: Le Roman Des Aventures De Fregus and “The Best Breed in the North”? 235
25. Index of Personal Name 253
26. Index of Place 255
27. General Index 257