Category Archives: Academic life

AI and medieval studies

Posted on May 13, 2024 by thegrailquest

The AI-Generated Middle Ages: The Pitfalls and the Potentials More and more students – and people in all walks of life – use AI to find answers to all sorts of questions. Whereas Wiki used to be the first port … Continue reading →

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Middle Ages in Modern Games 2023 conference proceedings

Posted on April 23, 2024 by thegrailquest

Someone told me once that my only interest is horses. That someone was right… almost.99% of my non-sleeping (“free”) time is horses. Taking care of them, riding them, writing, reading and talking about them, and just watching them.But there is … Continue reading →

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Horse training in the ancient world: a seminar

Posted on March 6, 2024 by thegrailquest

Want to find out how horses were trained in the ancient world? Maybe get some useful tips for your own training practice?Join the first collaborative seminar hosted by the Equine History Collective and Cheiron: The International Journal of Equine and … Continue reading →

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A new volume of Cheiron is published

Posted on February 2, 2024 by thegrailquest

A new volume of Cheiron: The International Journal of Equine and Equestrian History, is out. This free online Gold Open Access is dedicated to the history of horses and other equids. The new volume (Cheiron 3(2)) takes you across times … Continue reading →

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A virtual event on medieval horses on April 27

Posted on April 20, 2023 by thegrailquest

This would be the final virtual horse history seminar of 2022/23, with our two speakers talking about horses in medieval European literature and art. More details available on the Facebook group. https://facebook.com/events/s/medieval-horses-in-texts-and-i/1436881057049673/?sfnsn=mo

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Some thoughts on medieval urban equines

Posted on February 7, 2020 by thegrailquest

in the late Middle Ages, the horse became more widely popular as a means of transportation than ever before in history… (Fabienne Meiers, “Equestrian Cities: The Use of Riding Horses and Characteristics of Horse Husbandry in Late Medieval Urban Agglomerations,” … Continue reading →

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The Less Glamorous Equines

Posted on February 2, 2020 by thegrailquest

“Horses have the speed and spirit, but for strength, endurance, and steadiness, they are often the inferior of other species and varieties. That so much depended upon four-legged freight makes it something of a surprise how neglected it is in … Continue reading →

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The Hardest Part of Producing the Horse History Volume was the Introduction…

Posted on January 29, 2020 by thegrailquest

“…It is necessary for any scholar working on the pre-modern period, irrespectively of his or her discipline, to have some understanding of the horse in the [pre-modern] society…” (“Introduction,” The Horse in Premodern European Culture, ed. A. Ropa and T. Dawson) Writing … Continue reading →

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Accomplishing the Mission: a prehistory to The Horse in Premodern European Culture

Posted on January 22, 2020 by thegrailquest

In July 2015, two medievalists met at one of the social spaces of the International Medieval Congress at Leeds. It must have been a reception, with wine flowing as usual, as the two medievalists who did not know each got … Continue reading →

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Horse History Sessions at IMC 2019

Posted on June 29, 2019 by thegrailquest

Session 517: Horses to the East Tue, 02 July – 09.00-10.30 Jürg Gassmann, Horses in Western Asia in the Transition from Late Antiquity to ca. 1000 CE Hylke Hettema, A Medieval Genealogy of the Arab Horse Alexia-Foteini Stamouli, Equids in … Continue reading →

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