Monthly Archives: April 2025

Chaucer’s Ploughman and His Mare

Posted on April 25, 2025 by thegrailquest

My year 2025 started, totally unexpectedly, with a commission from the Medieval World magazine, offering to write for them an article on medieval horses for their special horse- themed issue. Horses are becoming an increasingly sexy topic, I thought. I … Continue reading →

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All horse masters have something in common…

Posted on April 1, 2025 by thegrailquest

Kikkuli, the horse trainer from the land of Mitanni, is the first known horse trainer whose advice on training (or, rather, conditioning) horses, has been preserved. The text has been preserved on four clay tablets and provides a detailed regimen … Continue reading →

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