Index
Abbasid
57ff
Aelian
183ff
Albertus Magnus
225f, 327
ambler
333, 335
Andalusia
234
Andrea da Barberino
168ff
Storie di Rinaldo
168ff
Anglo-Norman
79, 200
Anglo-Saxon
79, 98
Arab / Arabic
39, 57ff, 114, 119, 183, 189, 202, 203, 238
horse
39
archaeology
224, 267ff
archer / archery
40, 58ff, 220, 241f
Aristotle
10, 298, 300
Arrian
179ff
armour
16, 19, 28, 29, 32, 34, 37, 41, 47, 139, 143, 145, 147, 169, 179, 180, 181, 190, 216, 219, 223n, 226, 230, 241
Arthurian literature
14ff, 140, 176, 313f, 324, 327,
Malory, Thomas and Marie de France
Chrétien de Troyes
14
Le Chevalier de la Charrette
345
Erec et Enide
331
Perceval
331, 332, 336
Yvaine, ou le chevalier au lion
331
Gottfried von Strassburg
Tristan and Isolde
159ff
Hartmann von Aue
139ff
Erec
17, 146
Iwein
163f
Lancelot-Grail cycle
331
Lancelot
332–3, 337, 340
Mabinogion
337
Perlesvaus
345
Queste del Saint Graal
324, 332, 336, 337ff, 343
Queste y Seint Greal
339, 345
Sir Launfal
104, 329, 336
Wolfram von Eschenbach
139ff
Parzival
13ff, 142ff, 336, 338
Willehalm
145ff
Asia
39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 48, 262, 264, 266
ass
99, 258,
donkey
Assyria
251
Athena
292
Austria
237
Bagnold, Enid
National Velvet
325
Bayard
9, 168ff
Bayeux tapestry
254, 258
Bellerophon
292, 293n
birds of prey
72
bit
169, 170, 171, 172, 175, 216, 217, 220, 267ff, 333n
Book of the Icelanders
51, 54
Botai
268
Bouvines, battle of
193
Bran
327
brida
215
bridle
22, 29, 35, 36, 87, 121, 136, 169, 172, 215, 218, 267ff, 283, 284, 292ff, 334
British Isles
267ff
Bronze Age
269, 280, 282
Brunetto Latini
Li livres dou tresor
225
Bucephalas
134
Bulgarians
116
bullfighting
215, 217, 218
burial
horse burial
53, 274ff
Oseberg burial
54, 254
Byzantine / Byzantium
57, 112ff, 183, 184, 189, 190, 193, 201, 202, 203
Cairo
57ff
caltrops
48
camel
45–46
cane run
326f
card games
209
Castile
187n, 191, 206, 207, 211, 237, 238, 239
Castilian (horse)
16, 18, 21, 25, 30, 150, 151
centaur
4–5
Central Asia
43, 262, 264, 266
Champion, Robert
335, 342
chanson de geste
52, 324
Maugis
168
Renaut de Montauban
168
Quatre Fils Aymon
168
charger see courser
chariot
53, 251, 253n, 255, 257
Chaucer, Geffrey
101
Canterbury Tales
328, 334ff, 343
chess
209
China
8f, 38ff, 251, 252, 253, 259ff, 260
Constantinople
121, 124
courser
5, 226, 227, 228, 230, 231ff, 333
crusade(s)
65, 184, 335
curse
54
Damascus
119
La Dame qui aveine demandoit pour Morel sa proveindre avoir see fabliaux
dancing
209
Denmark
90f, 93, 97, 282
destrier
14n, 106, 111, 141n, 143f, 156, 166, 169, 226, 227, 228ff
DNA
39
Dom Duarte see Duarte I of Portugal
Don Quixote
320f, 321
donkey
114, 123, 128, 132–3, 135, 137, 226, 251, 255, 258, 280, 291
dragon
47, 143, 160ff, 170
dressage
14n, 16
Dunhuang
250, 259n, 261, 261, 263, 266
Duarte I of Portugal
10, 204ff, 302
Edda
50
elephant
72
England
15, 16, 90, 97, 223, 232, 239, 241, 243, 253
Essex
83
fabliaux
326
La Dame qui aveine demandoit pour Morel sa proveindre avoir
326
La Pucele qui abreva le polain
326
Fabri, Felix
Le Voyage en Egypte
71
Fechtbücher
190, 201
fertility cult
53
Flanders
334
Florence
168
Fortuna
295, 297
France
101, 169, 176, 184, 230, 234, 238n, 239, 253, 255, 256, 258, 269, 296
Franconia
21
Freyfaxi see Hrafnkels Saga
Freyja
54
furusiyya
57ff, 201f
Gallier, Susan
One of the Lads
341–343
Genghis Khan
38, 46, 48
Geoffrey de Charny
187, 190, 224f
Gerald of Wales
270–271
Germany
14, 15, 16, 23, 24, 80, 83, 143, 237, 253, 258, 270, 279
gineta see jennet
Gregory of Tours
120n
Grim Reaper
304, 306
hackney
242
hagiography
Antony Kauleas
115, 133
Antony the Younger
122, 132
Elias of Heliopolis
119, 129
Elias Spelaiotes
126, 129
Elias the Younger
129–130
Eustratios
114–115, 127–8, 131
Euthymios the Younger
134
George of Amastris
122
Germanos I of Constantinople
123
Ioannikios
116, 128, 135
Irene of Chrysobalanton
116
John of Damascus
125, 135, 137
John of Gotthia
129
John the Psichaites
137
Kosmas the Hymnographer
123
Leo of Catania
131
Loukas
117, 133
Michael Maleinos
117
Nicholas of Stoudios
120
Michael Synkellos
135
Nikon Ho Metanoeite
118, 126
Nikephoros of Miletos
132
Nikephoros I Patriarch
134
Patriarch Euthymios
123
Philaretos
113–114, 118
Sixty Martyrs of Jerusalem
119
Stephen the Sabaite
135
Stephen the Younger
117, 124, 137
Theodore of Kythera
133
Theodore of Stoudios
121, 135, 136
Theophanes the Confessor
121, 137
Saint Theophano
120
helmet
97, 174, 179
heraldry
17, 290
Herakles
294
herb (dyestuff)
174, 175n
hippiatric medicine see veterinary medicine
hippocentaur see centaur
hippodrome
57ff, 123–124, 136
Holy Grail
13, 24, 31, 32, 34, 158
horse fights
54
horse meat
287
Hrabanus Maurus
181–182, 185n, 199
Hrafnkell see Hrafnkels Saga
Hrafnkels Saga see sagas
horse burial see burial
Hungary
257
Iceland
8n, 53, 54, 55, 260
Icelandic horse
50, 54–55
Icelandic sagas see sagas
Iran
61
Ireland
8n, 267ff
Iron Age
269ff, 288
Íslendingabók see Book of Icelanders
Isidore of Seville
Etymologies
3–4
Isolde
327
Italy
168, 176, 184, 253, 304
javelin
180, 218
Jean d’Arc
344
Jean de Bueil
192
jennet
215, 219
Jerusalem
335
João I of Portugal
10, 204ff
joust
16, 19n, 21, 27, 141n, 142, 143, 144, 148ff, 151f, 187, 188, 205ff, 230, 336n
Kriegsbuch literature
190
lance
98, 148, 152, 158, 169, 171, 179ff, 184, 187, 188, 189, 201, 203, 217, 224, 227ff, 232, 236
lorinery
267ff
Luttrell Psalter
259, 301, 302, 316
maidan see maydan
Malory, Thomas
La Morte d’Arthur
324
Mamluk
57ff, 183, 201ff
Marco Polo
Il Milione
38
mare
46, 85n, 99, 100, 106n, 110, 111, 271, 287
Marie de France
Lanval
329
Marshal, William
187
Maurice, Emperor
Strategikon
112
maydan
60ff, 201–203
McCain, Ginger
My Colourful Life: From Red to Amber
323
Medici
168
mélée
188
Middle English romance
Athelston
80, 96, 99, 104ff
Bevis of Hampton
80
Gamelyn
80, 86, 104ff
Havelok the Dane
79ff
King Horn
79ff
Mongol
65
mule
1, 5, 59n, 70, 111, 114, 116–117, 226, 238, 244f, 251, 345
Muslim
58–59, 119, 172, 215
Napravnik, Rosie
325–6, 329
Nemesis
295
Nithard
186, 190
Norway
39, 254
Numidia
302
oats
326–7
Old Norse
53
onocentaur see centaur
Oseberg burial see burial
ox
5–6, 52, 114
packhorse
5, 25, 226, 230, 236
pace
55
palfrey
95, 102, 103, 104, 108n, 226, 227, 242, 333, 339
Patrick, St.
273, 275
Pegasus
292
Pillenreuth, battle of
195–196
Plato
294
polo
61, 63, 66ff
portcullis
143, 163ff
Portugal
205ff, 257, 302
Przewalski horse
38
Przewalski, Nicolaï Mikhaïlovitch
38
La Pucele qui abreva le polain see fabliaux
Quest for the Holy Grail see literature, Queste del Saint Graal
racing
10, 63n, 123–125, 171, 174–175, 251, 323, 325, 335ff
Grand National
323, 326, 335
Kentucky Derby
326
Dubai Shergar Cup
328
reins
22, 153, 156, 216, 217, 224, 257, 267, 282, 290
Rinaldo da Montalbano see Storie di Rinaldo under Andrea da Barberino
Roman / Rome
179ff, 199, 203, 208, 237, 251, 252, 253, 265, 266, 267ff, 305
rouncey
18, 226, 227, 236f, 245
Rufus, Jordanus
224
sacrifice
54
saddle
17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 27, 29, 35, 36, 39, 59, 60, 61, 72, 74, 87, 98, 100n, 102, 104, 109, 121, 161, 164f, 169, 173, 174, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 240, 241, 258, 264, 266, 302, 304, 285, 288, 290
side saddle
328, 331
sagas
50, 51
Bjarnar saga Hítdælakappa
50, 51
Droplaugarsona saga
52
Egils saga
53, 54
Flóamanna saga
53
fornaldarsögur
50
Fóstbrœðra saga
50
Grettis saga
50
Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu
52
Hávarðar saga Ísfirðings
52
Hrafnkels Saga
49, 51
konungasögur
50
Ljósvetninga saga
52
Vatnsdæla saga
54
Víga-Glúms saga
50
Saladin
59, 66
Saracen
81, 82f, 84, 86, 89, 135, 158, 169f, 172, 197n, 231, 238
Sassanian
57, 60
Saxo Grammaticus
Gesta Danorum
54
Scandinavia
49, 53, 223, 257
Scotland
265, 270, 286
Seneca
208
Sewell, Anne
Black Beauty
342
show-jumping
16
Sicily
184, 264, 304
Silk Road
41n, 42
skeið
55
slave / slavery
57ff, 298
Sleipnir
53
snaffle
269, 267, 278, 279, 281, 291
spear
62, 85, 92, 98, 149, 155, 160, 161, 185n, 211ff, 216ff, 219
spurs
22, 84, 85, 94, 106, 161, 164, 172, 173, 174, 215, 216, 217, 241, 290, 301, 302, 328, 335
squire
328
stallion
31, 36, 53, 105, 111, 272, 274, 288
stirrups
86, 106, 216, 219, 220, 223, 333n
Switzerland
253
sword
58, 60, 61n, 64, 84, 86, 94, 96, 98, 106, 145, 163f, 169, 180, 188, 201, 211, 213, 219, 224, 287
Tacitus
Germania
52, 53
Taylor, Elizabeth
325
tack
169, 267ff
Tangut
8, 9, 38ff
Tara
270
Tarot
306, 307
tea
45
Templars
193, 199
tennis
209
theft
141n, 170
Thessaly
5
Thrace
120
Thuringia
21
Tibet
38, 39, 40, 43, 46, 48
tölt
55
tourism
55
tournament
17, 19n, 26, 34, 61, 96n, 99n, 105, 176, 186ff, 194, 203, 215, 219, 228, 229, 245
Trier Apocalypse
257
Tristan
169, 322, 327
Tuscan
168
Turner, Hayley
328
Ulster Ccle
274f
United Kingdom
323
Uighur
39, 40, 41n, 46, 48
Vegetius
179ff, 208
veterinary medicine
39–40, 112n, 224
Vikings
81n, 53, 272–273, 276, 290
Wessex
80
Westernesse
83, 87f
Worringen, battle of
194
Xenophon
182, 199, 204, 219
yoke
5, 250ff