I know early cavalry didn't do proper charges instead opting for the old jab and run, but when was a jousting type, the lance tucked under the arm, charge invented and when did it become popular?
I know early cavalry didn't do proper charges instead opting for the old jab and run, but when was a jousting type, the lance tucked under the arm, charge invented and when did it become popular?
Actually this is kind of a myth. Contrary to popular belief, the couched lance technique has been around since at least the Achaemenid empire, as we see it in their art. The Orlat Battle Plaque of the 1st Century BC also depicts it.
http://warfare.netau.net/Ancient/Orlat_battle_plaque-after_Savchuk.gif
Stirrups are not required for a couched lance technique - the Strategikon explicitly states the couched lance was adopted from the "fair-haired peoples" (Iranic-speaking nomads, namely the Sarmatians and Alans) who we know did not have Stirrups (Stirrups were invented in Mongolia around 300 AD and introduced c. 560-600 AD by the Avars).
George T. Dennis, Maurice's Strategikon, p. 38.
On the advent of the Stirrup see Florian Curta, “The Earliest Avar-Age Stirrups, or the ‘Stirrup Controversy’ Revisited” in The Other Europe in the Middle Ages. Avars, Bulgars, Khazars, and Cumans. East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 2 (2008), 302-310
Note: Florian says Stirrups have been found on the Volga as early as the 1st quarter of the 6th century, suggesting they may have actually been a Sabir (Xianbei) introduction.
Note for the note: On the Sabirs being the Xianbei (not another group of ethnic Huns) see Peter Golden, "Some Notes on the Etymology of Sabir" https://www.academia.edu/20107948/Some_Notes_on_the_Etymology_of_Sabir
I know early cavalry didn't do proper charges instead opting for the old jab and run, but when was a jousting type, the lance tucked under the arm, charge invented and when did it become popular?
Actually this is kind of a myth. Contrary to popular belief, the couched lance technique has been around since at least the Achaemenid empire, as we see it in their art. The Orlat Battle Plaque of the 1st Century BC also depicts it.
http://warfare.netau.net/Ancient/Orlat_battle_plaque-after_Savchuk.gif
Stirrups are not required for a couched lance technique - the Strategikon explicitly states the couched lance was adopted from the "fair-haired peoples" (Iranic-speaking nomads, namely the Sarmatians and Alans) who we know did not have Stirrups (Stirrups were invented in Mongolia around 300 AD and introduced c. 560-600 AD by the Avars).
George T. Dennis, Maurice's Strategikon, p. 38.
On the advent of the Stirrup see Florian Curta, “The Earliest Avar-Age Stirrups, or the ‘Stirrup Controversy’ Revisited” in The Other Europe in the Middle Ages. Avars, Bulgars, Khazars, and Cumans. East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 2 (2008), 302-310
Note: Florian says Stirrups have been found on the Volga as early as the 1st quarter of the 6th century, suggesting they may have actually been a Sabir (Xianbei) introduction.
Note for the note: On the Sabirs being the Xianbei (not another group of ethnic Huns) see Peter Golden, "Some Notes on the Etymology of Sabir" https://www.academia.edu/20107948/Some_Notes_on_the_Etymology_of_Sabir
