HIST 398
SYLLABUS
WEEKLY DISCUSSION MATERIALS

 

HORSES AND HUNTING

Tuesday:

Video:

Falconry (5:45 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufstmgDtNrM

 

Readings:

Bennett, “The Medieval Warhorse”

Prestwich, Armies and Warfare, pp. 30-37

Gies and Gies, Life, Chap. 7 (pp. 125-146)

Carlin and Crouch, Lost Letters, Documents 13 (pp. 68-71), 47 (pp. 158-61), 60-62 (pp. 189-201)

 

Horse and riding videos:

5 gaits of the Icelandic horse (2:24 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV9P0w8vZi8

Jason Kingsley: Medieval mounted combat (13:21 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpiBoYjg_5Q

Jason Kingsley: What did horses do in medieval battles? (8:50 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpqI_cCkwWs

Jason Kingsley: A medieval saddle (2:48 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAPdYOycF14

The charge: collection of film clips (2:54 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQZGvxM_Dq0

 

Hunting videos:

Jason Kingsley: How did knights hunt with birds of prey? (13:20 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJIMhsoNjOE

The unmaking of a fallow deer at Charlcote Park [from The Boke of St Albans] (U. of Nottingham, 59:19 min.):
https://vimeo.com/63126013

Summary & text of “How ye shall breeke an hert” from The Boke of St Albans:
https://web.archive.org/web/20031003100211/www.arch-projects.org.uk/unmaking.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20030814173845/http://www.arch-projects.org.uk:80/unmaking2.htm

 

Horse images:

Horses, from the Psychomachia of Prudentius: England, mid 11th cent.

Scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry (English, 1070s):

Norman cavalry in the Battle of Hastings
Mounted and dismounted Normans attack the English

Scenes from the Maciejowski Bible (Paris, 1234-44):

Battle
Another battle
And another
And another
King David leaves Keilah: see details of spur and stirrup, and bridle
David in battle: note detail of spur
Absalom seeks refuge: note detail of saddle, bridle, and harness
Death of Absalom: note mule’s saddle

Tournament fatality, by Matthew Paris and  Kneeling knight with horse, from the Westminster Psalter, by Matthew Paris (mid 13th cent.)

Sir Geoffrey Luttrell (1330s)

Horse colors

Points of a horse

Rider on Clydesdale and standing beside Percherons

Welsh cob with rider

Morgan horse

Saddle: Tibetan, 15th-17th cent. (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Curb bits:  from the Maciejowski Bible (Paris, 1234-44) and from painting by Gentile da Fabriano

Rowel spur: Catalan, c. 1400 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

A selection of bridles, reins, and bits

 

Hunting images:

Falcon

Hooded peregrine falcons (adult female on left; young untrained female on right)

Red deer

Roe deer

Fallow deer

Hare (by Albrecht Dürer, 1502), and recent photograph

Deer-hunting with bow

Hawking

Hawking (Bayeux Tapestry)

Lords and ladies hawking

Lanner falcon in flight (photograph)

Goshawk plucking a dead widgeon (photograph)

Scenes from the Book of Hunting (Livre de chasse) of Gaston Phebus, Count of Foix (late 14th cent.):

Types of prey

Getting ready

Teaching huntsmen how to blow horns

Tracking by scent

The hunters enjoy a picnic meal

Chasing a boar and blowing horns

Chasing the deer

The deer is butchered, and a boar is butchered

Shooting stags with crossbow from a blind

Shooting a boar with crossbow

Spearing a boar

Caring for the hounds

Hunting hares

Hunting rabbits

Scenes from Frederick II’s De arte venandi cum avibus (mid 13th cent.)
Care and training of birds
Birds with seeled eyes
Some birds to be hunted

Poachers shoot Adam the Forester (from Becket miracle windows, Canterbury Cathedral, early 1200s)

 

 

 

Thursday:

 NO CLASS TODAY:

RESEARCH PAPER DUE IN CANVAS BY 4:59 PM

Use today to put the finishing touches on your research paper. Be sure to proofread it before submitting it!