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. |
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Tournaments: Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages Richard W. Barber,Juliet R. V. Barker No preview available - 1989 |
Tournaments: Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages Richard Barber,Richard W. Barber,Juliet R. V. Barker No preview available - 1989 |