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Product details
- ISBN 9781836391050
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 2025
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book explores the role of horses across the medieval world, from the Kievan Rus' and Scandinavia to Central Europe, Byzantium, the Arab world and Asia, including China and India. Covering the early medieval period to the late Middle Ages, it examines how horses shaped societies, warfare and culture and how their legacy persists in traditional equestrian sports today.
Drawing on little-known primary sources, artefacts, and the author’s hands-on experience with historical horsemanship, the book offers a vivid account of the deep connection between people and horses. Combining scholarly insight with practical knowledge, this is the most comprehensive study of medieval horses in Europe and Asia to date.
Anastasija Ropa lectures at the Latvian Academy of Sport Education, and has owned and trained horses for many years. Her books include Practical Horsemanship in Medieval Arthurian Romance (2019).
