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 Xe

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.