Susan Data-Samtak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Annette and others-
Can we make a subgroup that deals with riding outfits and horse items?
I'd hate to not get feedback from all the historical costumers on the
big list, but I don't want to annoy the rest of you with "horse
specific" questions. Much snippage ! But... I would have been in
the peasant class, as I am in real life!)
Susan
snip
On Mar 6, 2006, at 11:41 AM, Kahlara wrote:
> Over the years I have found that most of my creative associations seem
> to have at least two or three similarities in other areas as well as
> the shared interest in which we first became aquainted.
>
> I have noticed several list members make reference to horses and
> riding. I ride and own horses also.Much snippage>
> Just a little generalizing. ;-) COMMENT
Annette, Susan, and others -
according to Master Rhys Terafan Greydragon, - he estimates that of the
entire SCA membership, possibly only 10% can actually ride, - and fewer still
own their own horses.
Presumeably the percentage of "riders" against "pedestrians" is much the
same in most other re-enactment groups, large and small - Roman, Dark Ages,
medieval, English Civil War, Frederick the Great, Marlborough, 1776, Napoleonic
Wars, Crimean War, US Civil War, Zulu & Ashanti Wars, and Anglo-Boer War, &c,
&c.
This is a huge percentage difference from the medieval period covered by the
SCA when one would suppose that the majority of the population above
Freedman-Status could ride, - and of course true also for those of the rest of
us interested in any other Period Re-enactment up to and including about 1914
Gregorian.
There must be so much specialised "Equestrian Lore" of costume, of bardings,
of other tacks - of which we are unaware, - it would seem likely to be a
subject of considerable interest to those of us who don't "ride" horses in
these Modern Middle Ages. For example.......
The "riding side-saddle, riding astride"-debate has it's own fascinations -
Chaucer's illustrators clearly show the female Pilgrims riding astride - but I
have read comments confusing the issue, by moderns, flatly stating that even
during the 15th Century, all women rode fully-side-saddle, or sat behind a Male
servant. Did this call for divided skirts? or did women wear hosen under their
skirts so as to be able to ride astride yet keep their modesty? At what Time
point and in which Kingdoms did it become "immodest" and frowned-upon for women
to ride astride?
I would support such a subgroup, and kibitz in the hope of learning much new
information.
Julian,
in Old Jersey
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