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Early stirrups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Mary Aiken Littauer
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The stirrup helped a more heavily armoured rider to mount a bigger horse; it is considered to have permitted the shock encounter with couched lance and, by offering lateral support, to have encouraged the development of the sabre; it provided a top-heavy armoured warrior with more stability in the saddle, and it gave archers the possibility to rise and turn in the saddle, as well as furnishing them with a firmer base from which to shoot.

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Antiquity , Volume 55 , Issue 214 , July 1981 , pp. 99 - 105
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1981

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