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A number of treatises cover mounted fencing, including the "core" Liechtenauer's verses and Fiore: https://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Category:Mounted_Fencing https:/

• motohagiography 6y ago
  Duarte's book of horsemanship is estimated to have been written before 1438. It's also about horsemanship itself, and interestingly, an early philosophical self-help book. What was not true? Edit: ah, so their mounted fencing category includes Duarte's book, and other horsemanship books outside the cannon.
  • baxuz 6y ago
    > Notable that they don't include horsemanship in western martial arts. My bad, you're right – I didn't catch the context of the whole post: > There is a significant gap in writing on it between Xenophon's horsemanship and cavalry general treatises, and the 14th C. king Dom Duarte's book on horsemanship That being said, the earliest European work that can be called a martial treatise is the MS I.33 from 1320, so it kinda matches.
    • motohagiography 6y ago
      Thanks! This might be a new avenue to explore from a horsemanship study perspective. There is a lot missing from the narrative arc that essentially goes from Xenophon to a 'dark age' where practices were brutal, and then de Pluvinel brought both kindness and geometry to the discipline in France after learning, but defecting, from the harsher methods he learned in Italy from Pignatelli. This arc also ignores Duarte and probably a bunch of others. I"m interested as a practitioner, but also from a philosophical perspective, as I suspect equestrianism underpins the foundations of what became ethics. Can't say how much is accurate or true, but that's history for you.
  • User23 6y ago
    > interestingly, an early philosophical self-help book. Zen and the Art of Destrier Maintenance?
    • motohagiography 6y ago
      That's exceptionally funny, yes, that's basically what it is.