Saints and Sinners on Horseback. Vol. 1

€97.00

Edited by Miriam A. Bibby 

With a Foreword by Francis Young


Publication date: August, 2023

Pages: 326, colour


ISBN 978-615-6405-86-9             Paperback, €53.00

ISBN 978-615-6405-87-6             Hardcover, €97.00

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Foreword by Francis Young


Introduction by Miriam A. Bibby  Download PDF


PROLOGUE

Horse Stealing in Early Modern England: A Shropshire Case of 1606

Peter Edwards


PART 1: The Horse and the World: Cultivated Clerics and Loving Couples


CHAPTER 1. Morality Tales and Misadventure: Horses in Medieval Ecclesiastical Writings

Jürg Gassmann


CHAPTER 2. Saint George on Horseback on Fifteenth-Century Bone Saddles

Virág Somogyvári


PART 2: Equine Miracles and Wonders


CHAPTER 3. Horse Slobber and Sacred Relics: The Role of Constantine’s Horse in the Old English Elene

Kathryn E. O’Toole


CHAPTER 4. Sarı Saltuk and His Horses: Horses as Ways of Accessing Different Planes in Medieval Turkish Heroic Narrative

Mihajlo Bozovic


PART 3: The Horse in Hagiography


CHAPTER 5. Horses in a Christian Context: The Evidence of Saint Basil the Great

Alexia-Foteini Stamouli


CHAPTER 6. Companions of God and Justice Bringers: Horses in Early Medieval Hagiography from Gaul and Italy

Andrea Maraschi


CHAPTER 7. Where Hagiography Meets Hippology: Hans Mielich’s Ligsalz Epitaph (1550)

Pia F. Cuneo


PART 4: Riders at the Margin: Sinners and the Sinned Against


CHAPTER 8. Sexuality, Alterity, and Riding in Thietmar’s Chronicon

Chris Halsted


CHAPTER 9. 3000 Miles to Rouen: Joan of Arc on Horseback

Scott Manning


ENVOI

Race With the Devil: Tam O’Shanter and the Dissident Demons of Speed

Miriam A. Bibby


Notes on Contributors

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Editor(s)
Miriam A. Bibby
Imprint
Trivent Medieval
Book series
Rewriting Equestrian History
Book series editor(s)
Anastasija Ropa, Timothy Dawson
ISBN (hardcover)
978-615-6405-87-6
ISBN (paperback)
978-615-6405-86-9
eISBN
978-615-6405-88-3
Publication date
May, 2023
Page numbers
326

Specific References

In Saints and Sinners on Horseback Volume I we meet saints, sinners, and their horses, mules, and donkeys on the road. Whether saint, sinner, or simply all too human, the medieval individual’s connection to equids reflected relationships with other animals, the rest of humanity, and with the deity. Knowledge of horses permeated hagiographies and homilies, histories and biographies. Equids were recruited in commentaries on morality and Christian duty. In a world in which equids are not so readily encountered, Saints and Sinners on Horseback informs the modern reader about the essential part played by horses in medieval life, literature, and belief.

Dr. Miriam A. Bibby FSA Scot is an equine historian, author, and editor. She is Vice President of the Equine History Collective, an international group of equine history scholars, and co-editor-in-chief of Cheiron, the International Journal of Equine and Equestrian History. Miriam has worked as an academic, museum curator, and heritage consultant. This is the second volume in Trivent’s Rewriting Equestrian History series that she has edited, and two more are forthcoming. 

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