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> 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 sign
by 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 agoThanks! 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.