Charles Caramello - Riding to Arms: A History of Horsemanship and Mounted Warfare

Riding to Armscarefully navigates the complex, sometimes complementary and sometimes contradictory, relationship between high school equitation and practical military riding, highlighting and quoting from the works of all the great masters of horsemanship. Taking the reader through the development of the art of the mange(school) style of riding and the technical aspects of military horsemanship, this book should be on the library shelf of all serious students of riding technique and cavalry.Louis A. DiMarco, LTC (Ret.) U.S. Army, author of War Horse: A History of the Military Horse and Rider

This wide-ranging and well-written book offers new insights into the emergence of effective light cavalry in western armies from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Authored by a lover of horses and riding, it draws on intellectual, practical, and cultural writings to highlight an increasing understanding of the horse as a living animal and as the key to the mounted warfare and mobility of that era.Stephen Badsey, author of Doctrine and Reform in the British Cavalry 18801918

Charles Caramello surveys four centuries of equestrian literature from early works on mangeriding to works on conditioning horse and soldier for modern cavalry warfare. A historiography of ideas about horsemanship, where proponents of different schools often sparred over training philosophies, Riding to Armstraces the literature from the mangetreatises of the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries to the cavalry manuals of the long nineteenth century, culminating in the Great War.Elizabeth Tobey, editor and cotranslator of Federico GrisonesThe Rules of Riding: An Edited Translation of the First Renaissance Treatise on Classical Horsemanship