I've been trying to get a bunch of information together for some notes I've been doing about medieval warhorses.

A lot of it will be too early to be useful to people on this list (it's intended to cover everything from norman forward), and some of it will even be a little late, since I was going forward to the last tornaments under Elisabeth, but I figured it might be useful to somebody.

I've listed pretty much every horse-related book or article I was able to dig up in a pretty extensive literature search. I don't gaurantee their usefulness or quality, though.

I'm still getting hold of some of these myself, but will try and help people having problems getting stuff if I can.

If somebody else knows of an item I've missed, please let me know!

Neil

WARHORSES AND RELATED

BOOKS

Anglo, Sydney "The martial arts of renaissance Europe" 2000, ISBN 0300083521- apparently has two chapters on horsemanship

Ayton, Andrew “Knights and warhorses”

Brereton, JM "The horse in war" 1976

Chacon, Hernan "Tractado de la caualleria de la gineta. introduction, text and notes" Ed Noel Fellows 1999. 1551 light cavalry manual.

Davis, RHC "The medieval warhorse" 1989

Dent AA and Cawley Ac "Chaucer and the horse" 1959

Dent AA & Goodall, DM "The foals of Epona" 1962

Dent AA "horses in Shakespeare's England" 1987.

Edwards, P "The horse trade in Tudor & Stuart England" 1988

Gilbey, Sir W, "The great horse, or the war horse from the time of the roman invasion till its development into the shire horse”, 1899

Gladitz, C "Horse breeding in the medieval world"

Goodall, DM "A history of horse breeding" 1977

Grisone, Federigo "The rules of horsemanship" 1550

Hewitt, HJ "The organization of war under Edward III 1338-62" 1966

Hewit HJ " The horse in medieval England" 1983.

Hyland, Ann “The Medieval Warhorse from Byzantium to the Crusades”

Hyland, Ann “The warhorse 1250 – 1600”

Hyland, Ann “The horse in the middle ages”

Jankovich, Miklos "They rode into Europe" 1971

King, EJ "The rule statutes and customs of the hospitallers 1099-1310" 1934 - lots of horse related rules

Langdon, J "Horses, oxen and technical innovation" 1986

Liedtke, W "The royal horse and rider: painting, sculpture and horsemanship 1500-1800" 1989 ISBN 0-89835-267-3

Loch, S "The royal horse of Europe" 1986

Museum of London “The medieval horse and its equipment”

Oakeshott, Ewart “A knight and his horse”

Reese MM "The royal office of master of the horse" 1976

Seth-Smith, Michael “The horse in war” 1979

Sioned Davies and Nerys Anne Hughes (eds) "The horse in Celtic culture; medieval welsh perspectives", 1997

Smith, G Rex “Medieval Muslim horsemanship”

Thirsk, J "horses in early modern England; for service, for pleasure, for power" Reading, 1978

ARTICLES

Ayton, Andrew “Arms, armor and horses” in Keen, “Medieval Warfare”

Bachrach, BS "Charlemagne's cavalry: myth and reality" Military affairs XLVII 1983 181-7

Bachrach, BS "Some observations on the military administration of the Norman conquest" Anglo-Norman studies VIII (1985) 1-25 - horse-related logistics

Bachrach, BS, 1988 "Caballus et caballarius" in Chickering HD & Seiler TH "The study of chivalry: resources and approaches"

Bachrach, BS, 1983 "Animals in warfare in early medieval Europe" Septimane vol XXXI 707-64

Bennet M "La regule du temple as a military manual or, how to deliver a cavalry charge" Studies in medieval history presented to R Allen Brown 1989, eds C Harper Bill et al.

Clapham, JH "The horsing of the Danes" EHR XXXV 1910, PP287-93

Darmer, DL "Some livestock price movements in thirteenth-century England" Economic history review (2nd ser) 22 no 1, 1-16

Davis, RHC - "Did the Anglo-Saxons have warhorses?" in Weapons & warfare in Anglo-Saxon England, ed Sonia Chadwick Hawkes 1989 p 141-144

Davis, RHC "The medieval warhorse" in FML Thomson "Horses in European economic history"

Davis, RHC "The Warhorses of the Normans", Anglo Norman studies 1987.

Dent AA "Chaucer and the medieval horse" proceedings of the Leeds philosophical and literary society IX (1959-62)

Edwards, PR "The horse trade of Chester in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries" Journal of the Chester arch soc 62 (1979)

Fallows, Noel "Un texto inedito sobre la caballeria del renacimento espanol" Hispanic Studies TRAC vol 14 Liverpool University press 1996

Glover, R "English warfare in 1066" EHR vol LXVII, Jan 1952 - argues for AS cavalry warfare

Gillmor, CM "Naval logistics of the cross-channel operation 1066" in Brown, RA "Proceedings of the battle conference 1984" (Anglo Norman studies VII 1985 105-31

Langdon, J 1982 "The economics of horses and oxen in medieval England " Agricultural history review 30, 31-40

Langdon j 1984 "Horse hauling: a revolution in vehicle transport in the twelfth and thirteenth century England?" past and present 103, 37-66

Littauer MA "Early horseshoe problems again" Antiquity 42, 1968

Lydon JF "The Hobelar: an Irish contribution to medieval warfare" Irish sword II 1954-6 12-16

Marshall, CS "The use of the charge in battles in the east 1192-1291" Historical research LXIII 1990 p 221-6

Masson G, "Horse management in medieval and renaissance Italy" Country Life Annual 1952 (well, it's worth a try!)

Millar GJ "The Albanian stradiot" History today 16, 1976 468-72

Morris JE 1914a "Mounted infantry in medieval warfare" TRHS (3rd ser) 8, 77-102

Nicol D "The impact of the European couched lance on medieval Muslim military tradition" Journal of the arms and armour soc vol X, 1980 (I'd have thought it was sort of SPLAT!)

Powicke, M "The general obligation to cavalry service under Edward I" Speculum 28, 814-33 1953

Prior CM "The royal studs of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries" Horse & Hound 1935 p10-38

Pryor JN "Transportation of horses by sea during the era of the crusades" Mariner's mirror 68, 1982

Richardson HG 1942 "The medieval ploughteam" History 26, 287-96

Sergeantson, Waldron & Bracegirdle "Medieval horses from Kingston-upon-Thames" London Archaeologist 7, 1992

Sutton, AF "John Nelyngton, Supplier of saddlery to Richard III" The Richardan 6

Svinhufvud, Ac "A late middle English treatise on horses" Stockholm studies in English 47, 1978

TOURNAMENTS AND RELATED

Anglo, Sydney "Le Jeu de la hache. A fifteenth-century treatise on the teaching of chivalric combat" Archaeologica 109 (191) 113-28

Anglo, S "Financial and Heraldic records of the English Tournament"

Anglo, Sidney "How to win at tournaments: the techniques of chivalric combat" Antiquaries journal LXVII 1988 P248-264

Anglo, Sidney "Score cheques and lists" Journal of the society of archivists vol II no 4 1961

Jackson, WH "The tournament and chivalry in German tournament books of the sixteenth century and in the literary works of emperor maximilian 1" in "The ideals and practice of medieval knighthood; papers from the first and second strawberry hill conferences" eds C Harper-bill and Ruth Harvey 1986 p 49-73

Barber, R and Barker, J “Tournaments”

Barker J "The tournament in England 1100-1400" 1986

Benson, Larry D "The tournament in the romances of chretien de troyes & L'histoire de Guillaume le marechal" in "Chivalric literature: essays on relations between literature and life in the later middle ages" Eds Benson, Larry D and Leyerle, John 1980 REPRINTED in "Contradictions from Beowulf to Chaucer: selected studies of Larry D Benson" Ed Andersson TM & Barney, SA 1995 - GOT IT

Lyssons, s "Copy of purchases for tournament at Windsor park 6 Edward " Archaeologica XVII (1814)! p297-310 - leather tornament armours

Rene of Anjou, 1460 “Forme et devis d’un tourney”, AKA "King Rene’s tournament book" tr E Bennet 1998

Vale, Juliet "Edward III and chivalry: chivalric society and its context 1270-1350" 1982