[Sca-cooks] Fw: [SCA Equestrian] Re: Fw: Re: [spca-wascaerfrig]Another look at a...

[Terry Decker]

As an interesting aside, I have recently seen a scholarly suggestion that
the ban had the effect of increasing the horse population leading to greater
use of mounted infantry (Charles the Bald ordered that those who could
afford it send mounted levies) and finally to the knight, a convergence
between religion (the Papal ban), politics (the need for faster moving
troops to control more real estate) and technology (the iron stirrup).

Bear


>> One would expect someone from the Cooks List to know about St Gregory III
>> [731-741]. As Pope, he banned the eating of horse-meat in 732 AD. Eating
>> (and using the more interesting bits and pieces for display)of the horse
>has
>> been documented as part of Celt and Egyptian pagan celebrations.
>>
>> >> Aimee LongCoeur