The Knight, the Lance and the Lightning Bolt July 11, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Medieval
***dedicated to Typhon who asked this question*** You are a knight, a protector of the realm and an important local landowner. You are, as befits your station, mounted and covered from head to toe in plate armour: the only thing you see is the narrow line of sight afforded to you by the eye slot in […]
Medieval Horse Whispering October 19, 2013
Author: Beach Combing | in : Medieval
Beach was fascinated by the example of East Anglian horse whispering, which he stumbled upon, and above all with readers’ replies elucidating this tradition. A bit more research has led him to a medieval parallel. It is a fascinating piece. Note that our author Gervase (early thirteenth century) doesn’t see the knight horse conjurer in […]
Frau Feie and Jousting April 10, 2012
Author: Beach Combing | in : Medieval
Another book from the burning libraries file, this time from thirteenth-century Saxony. The book is, as the burning library tag suggests, lost but we learn something of its subject matter from a surviving town chronicle. In 1281-1282 Magdeburg decided to hold a jousting tournament with an unusual prize: a woman. Now it must be remembered […]
