I’ve just published a chapter called “Inventing the Wild Horse: the Manmade History of the Takhi and Tarpan from 1828–2018” in Horse Breeds and Human Society: Purity, Identity and the Making of the Modern Horse, edited by Kristen Guest and Monica Mattfeld (Routledge, 2020). I went overboard writing this and outstripped my word count so …
Category Archives: Classical Age
Horses in Shining Armour – or Plate Mail Catsuits?
This eighteenth-century imagining of ancient Syrian horse armour seems bold, if a little impractical.