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Medievalista

 ISSN 1646-740X

SOUSA, Afonso Soares de. The Horse in the Portuguese Middle Ages. []. , 32, pp.171-216.   31--2022. ISSN 1646-740X.  https://doi.org/10.4000/medievalista.5658.

The present article is a contribution to the study of the horse in the Middle Ages, in a period that extends between the X-XIII centuries. Geographically, this analysis comprises a space in profound transformations that is Portugal, during the process that took it from county to kingdom. The horse is treated here from a social, political, economic and daily perspective, considering its creation, its market value and symbolic value. It also addresses the political instrumentalization of this animal by the Portuguese monarchs.

: Equid; horse; Middle Ages; Portugal.

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