Horses

A verse work of agricultur al advice written by a 16th century English farmer. An enlarged edition of his work, Five Hundreth Pointes of Good Husbandrie , was published in 1573.

This is the year 1008, maybe 1010. A group of people is clearing the way towards what is today known as Isère. Women are accompanied by children; men at arms are riding their horses, while others are leading their pigs, goats and cows in a great fuss. They have put what they need to live in carts. This adventure will lead them to the wooded shores of Paladru Lake. Who are these farmer-knights?

This comprehens ive report represents a landmark in the publicatio n of medieval finds from excavation s in York. It encompasse s very large assemblage s of medieval artefacts of a wide variety of materials, including iron, non-ferrou s metal, stone, jet, amber, fired clay, glass and textile. These were recovered from four major sites in York.

Horse and Hound orginated as the newsletter for SCA equestrian and hound community in the Kingdom of Atlantia. This discussion group is designed for animal-related topics in reference to Medieval times and/or SCA involvement.

A bibliograp hy on medieval horses by Master Magnus Malleus.

A stirrup is such a small thing -- a bit of metal and leather weighing in around 600 grams -- but some scholars think it changed the world, or at least some important pieces of the world.

Mailing list for the interkingdom Hunt Guild.

The IAES is located in the Anthropolo gy Department at Hartwick College, and is affiliated with the Institute for the History and Archaeolog y of the Volga in Samara, Russia.

Text from 1908 on the history of farriers.

A series of engravings that bring to us the very clear representation of the crafts and technology of his time, and the relative importance which these discoveries and inventions had in the mind of a well-informed layman of the 16th century.

New Discoveries includes illustrations of: The Lodestone, The Magnet; The Astrolabe; America; Gunpowder; Printing Books; Iron Clocks; Guaiacum (a New World remedy for syphilis); Distillation; Silk, or the Silkworm; Stirrups, or Foot Rests; the Watermill; the Winged Mill (windmills); Olive Oil; Sugar; Oil Colors (oil-painting); Spectacles (eyeglasses); Longitudes of the Earth Found from the Deviation of the Magnet from the Pole; Polishing Armor; Engraving on Copper; and the travels & discoveries of Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, and Ferdinand Magellan.

Upper Saxony, ca. 1560
Coll ection of full-scale drawings (some painted in color) of cavessons, curbs, and bits, perhaps by Veit Forster, teacher of Mang Seutter, who published a collection of engravings of these types of equipment in 1584. Forster and Seutter were stablemast ers for Marcus Fugger, owner of this manuscript .

The fauna of Anglo-Saxon England was plentiful and varied, and included some animals that have since been made extinct in this country. The vast areas of uninhabited forests, heaths and fells were home to many creatures, in addition to the other wild creatures that inhabited the towns and villages including the domestic animals.

Seneschauc ie is an anonymous document of the later 13th century, thought to date from the early 1270s, describing the roles of all officers and manorial servants on an idealised estate. It is not a guide to agricultur al practice, but to organisati on and man-manage ment.

One of the earliest manuscript s to deal specifical ly with 17th century agricultur e in Scotland was written by John Skene of the Hallyards, who succeeded to the estate in 1644, and died in 1669.

I have thought for a long time about whether or not hunting, falconry, and equestrian ‘arts’ should properly be called arts, or whether we are looking at something altogether new. Are they martial exercises? Should the expert practition ers of these arts be rewarded laurels, pelicans, or knighthood s? I don’t have the final answer to this question, but I hope to advance some thoughts to stimulate discussion and to crystalliz e my own thinking on the subject.

The group of armored equestrian figures forming the centerpiec e of the permanent arms and armor exhibition has, for almost a century, been one of the most popular and dramatic areas of the Metropolit an Museum. Aside from the bards (complete horse armors of plate) displayed on the figures, the Museum has many important examples in its reserve collection that are rarely shown, often unpublishe d, and largely unknown even to specialist s. In fact, armor for the horse has generally received much less scholarly attention than that designed for the rider, this volume being the first exclusivel y devoted to the subject.

This study returns to the traditional genre of medieval-estate studies to explore such missing links, emphasizing, in particular, the study of pastoral resources. The rich literature on seigneurial agriculture notwithstanding, historians know little about the local use of resources by agrarian institutions.

Masters Thesis, discussing Scandinavi an horse burials, artwork, and literature during the Viking Age. Word document format.

This translatio n of Walter of Henley&#39 ;s Treatise on Husbandry, which was written in the third quarter of the 13th century. The treatise is aimed at the owners of medium and large estates who worked their demesne lands, rather than farmed them out for cash rents, but might have little direct knowledge of agricultur e.