Tuesday:
Readings:
Bennett, “The Medieval Warhorse”
Prestwich, pp. 30-37
Money quiz:
Sir Walter needs a new destrier (warhorse), but it will cost £25. He is a good fighter and thinks he can earn the money by entering tournaments and winning ransoms from the knights he defeats. However, his expenses (for food, lodging, wages, tips, horse care, etc.) will amount to about 13s. 4d. per tournament. If he enters three tournaments, how much money will he have to win at each in order to cover his expenses and the cost of the new destrier?
Videos:
Clip showing Battle of Agincourt from Laurence Olivier’s “Henry V” (1944):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX1pXWoIgIQ
Clip from same film showing single combat (0.47 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XPQuThLlso
National Geographic documentary on the battle of Agincourt, based on the account of Henry V’s chaplain and records from the Archives Nationales in France (49 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMVJGibFrb0
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
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)
Rider on Clydesdale and rider on Percheron
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
Thursday:
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
Readings:
Gies and Gies, Life, Chap. 7 (pp. 125-146)
Edward, Duke of York, The Master of Game, Chaps. 33-34
https://sites.uwm.edu/carlin/the-master-of-game/
Images:
Hooded peregrine falcons (adult female on left; young untrained female on right)
Hare (by Albrecht Dürer, 1502), and recent photograph
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.):
Teaching huntsmen how to blow horns
The hunters enjoy a picnic meal
Chasing a boar and blowing horns
The deer is butchered, and a boar is butchered
Shooting stags with crossbow from a blind
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)
