The Liminal Horse: Equitation and Boundaries

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Rena Maguire and Anastasija Ropa (editors)

Publication date: October, 2021

Pages: 316, colour


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword

Elizabeth O’Brien


Introduction: The Horse as a Liminal Being  Download PDF

Rena Maguire and Anastasija Ropa


CHAPTER 1. Horse Training in the Thirteenth Century: Insights from Jordanus Rufus

Jennifer Jobst


CHAPTER 2. Crossing Borders in Equestrian Training: Applying Jordanus Rufus’s Advice on Training Young Horses Today

Anastasija Ropa


CHAPTER 3. Housing Horses on the Edge in Later Medieval England

Duncan L. Berryman


CHAPTER 4. Roman Horses, Enemy Horses and Riders: The Testimony of Historia Romana by Nikephoros Gregoras

Alexia-Foteini Stamouli


CHAPTER 5. Straight from the Horse’s Mouth: A Study of Horse Type Terms in English, French and Spanish

Cristina Oliveros Calvo


CHAPTER 6. Harnessing Horse Power: Then and Now

Terry Davis


CHAPTER 7. Bridles and Bones: Early Cavalry in Southern Scandinavia

Xenia Pauli Jensen and Jacob Kveiborg


CHAPTER 8. Livin’ on the Edge: Roman Influences on the Equestrian Equipment of Late Iron Age Ireland

Rena Maguire


CHAPTER 9. Dimisso equo: Horse-Riding Elites on the Frontiers of Rome

M. C. Bishop


CHAPTER 10. Mist on the Border: Emperor Severus and the Netherby Arabians that Never Were

Miriam A. Bibby 


Notes on Contributors

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Editor(s)
Rena Maguire and Anastasija Ropa
Imprint
Trivent Medieval
Book series
Rewriting Equestrian History
Book series editor(s)
Anastasija Ropa and Timothy Dawson
Publication date
October, 2021
Page numbers
316

Specific References

The historical horse is at once material and abstract, as is the notion of the border. Borders and frontiers are not only markers delineating geographical spaces but also mental constructs: there are borders between order and disorder, between what is permitted and what is prohibited. Boundaries and liminal spaces also exist in the material, economic, political, moral, legal and religious spheres. In this volume, the contributing authors explore the theme of the liminality of the horse in all of these historical arenas, asking how does one reconcile the very different roles played by the horse in human history?

RENA MAGUIRE is an Irish archaeologist specialising in ancient lorinery and equine material culture. She is a graduate and Research Fellow of Queen's University Belfast.

ANASTASIJA ROPA holds a doctoral degree from Bangor University (North Wales) and is currently a senior researcher at the Latvian Academy of Sport Education. Her most recent research explores medieval equestrianism in English and French literary sources.

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