Equestrian

This is not something that you'll get to see too often here in Meridies, but yes, it does exist! http://www.cavalry.meridies.org/ And it's worth the wait. Gulf Wars is one of the main places to see the horses in action. For obvious reasons, we don't want people to be in battle versus cavalry exactly like in medieval times! So no, this is not going to be a show like you'd get at Medieval Times, and we won't have jousting against persons. Instead, the horses are trained with things like Quintanes.

But it does appear that the group gets together for practices in Fort Valley GA and Mentone AL.

Equestrian Contacts

More information --

Discussion group on Facebook (most active place to find the Meridian Cavalry)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/459584460768475

Interest group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MeridianCavalry/

SCA Equestrian https://www.facebook.com/groups/34623283817/

Equestrian Questions -- see the files section in the Artisans Collaboration of Meridies facebook group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/314196732021880/files/

A collection of related emails -- http://www.florilegium.org/files/EQUESTRIAN/idxequestrian.html

Online book - The Armored Horse in Europe, 1480–1620

http://www.metmuseum.org/research/metpublications/The_Armored_Horse_in_Europe_1480_1620?Tag=medieval&title=&author=&pt=0&tc=0&dept=0

Online book - Man and the Horse: An Illustrated History of Equestrian Apparel

http://www.metmuseum.org/research/metpublications/Man_and_the_Horse_an_illustrated_history_of_equestrian_apparel?Tag=&title=&author=&pt=&tc=&dept=