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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.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 240
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780851157818
  • Genres
  • history, medieval, chivalry, reference
  • Release date
  • 2000