Tournaments: Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages
"Will appeal to a wide audience. It is beautifully presented...the illustrations add further glory to a thorough historical analysis which is based on extensive research in Europe-wide sources... particularly useful in bringing to our attention lesser-known materials from the Iberian peninsula. The level of discussion, range and thoroughness of treatment and excellence of annotation make this a useful reference work for the academic historian too: it is hard to find any aspect of tournaments that is not covered."HISTORY
The first serious study of tournaments throughout Europe reveals their importance — in the training of the medieval knight, the development of arms and armour, as an instrument of political patronage, and as a grand public spectacle.
- Author
- Richard Barber, Juliet Barker
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Boydell Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780851157818
- Genres
- history, medieval, chivalry, reference
- Release date
- 2000
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