Stirrup controversy
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bunnyjadwigaFound this floating around my sent-mail box:
There is, in fact, a scholarly argument over whether stirrups were essential in the formation of the Frankish cavalry during the Carolingian period.
Information on The Stirrup Controversy can be found in several sources. The pro-necessity of Stirrups argument is advanced by, among others, Medieval Technology and Social Change, by Lynn White Jr. The contrarian view is on the Medieval Technology Pages: http://scholar.chem.nyu.edu/tekpages/Subjects.html
I love the Medieval Technology pages, and figure them in the list of sources that I would rejoice to see cited in SCA research.
There is, in fact, a scholarly argument over whether stirrups were essential in the formation of the Frankish cavalry during the Carolingian period.
Information on The Stirrup Controversy can be found in several sources. The pro-necessity of Stirrups argument is advanced by, among others, Medieval Technology and Social Change, by Lynn White Jr. The contrarian view is on the Medieval Technology Pages: http://scholar.chem.nyu.edu/tekpages/Subjects.html
I love the Medieval Technology pages, and figure them in the list of sources that I would rejoice to see cited in SCA research.
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What were you doing!!??
Date: 2005-02-10 12:22 pm (UTC)I hope you get some snoozles today
Re: What were you doing!!??
Date: 2005-02-10 04:40 pm (UTC)