{"id":1571,"date":"2018-01-26T15:54:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T15:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2018-01-28T15:39:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T15:39:24","slug":"horses-and-courts-the-reins-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2018\/01\/26\/horses-and-courts-the-reins-of-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Horses and Courts: The Reins of Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donna Landry of Kent\u2019s Centre for Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century is co-hosting an international symposium on courts and horses from the sixteenth century to the present, taking in equestrian, sporting, military and ceremonial history.<\/p>\n

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For centuries horses have played a vital part in court ceremonies, political events and battles around the globe. Carriage processions, tournaments, carrousels, hunting and racing are just some of the activities in which horses have taken centre stage. Horses were also crucial performers in diplomatic exchanges and military confrontations. The culture of equestrianism at court was reflected in architecture, equipment and treatises, in bloodlines, riding and driving practices. Horsemen and horsewomen today maintain traditions that originated at medieval and early modern courts. However, despite their ubiquity in historical events, horses have been neglected in studies of court culture. \u2018The Reins of Power\u2019 seeks to fill this gap.<\/p>\n

The Reins of Power<\/a> will take place between Wednesday the 21st<\/sup> and Friday the 23rd<\/sup> of March at the Wallace Collection in Central London.\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 Tickets are \u00a365 per day or \u00a3150\u00a0 for the whole event (reduced student rates are available) and can be booked through the Eventbrite website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Image courtesy of the Wallace Collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Donna Landry of Kent\u2019s Centre for Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century is co-hosting an international symposium on courts and horses from the sixteenth century … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[143219,124,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}