Tournaments: Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages ~ Richard W. Barber & Juliet Barker

Tournaments: Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages

 & Juliet Barker

Binding: lHard cover with dust jacket

Book Condition: Good condition

Edition: First American Edition 1989

Summary; "This is the first serious study of medieval tournaments: Richard Barber and Juliet Barker illuminate their importance, and reveal their place at the heart of medieval culture. They are seen as having played a vital role in the training of a medieval knight who depended for his survival on skill in hand-to-hand combat, and they stimulated new developments in arms and armour; they were used by ruling princes for political patronage (as with Edward III and the Order of the Garter), and thus made an important contribution to national order and stability; and they were occasions of glamour and splendour, confirming the power of the ruling order, and providing a public spectacle of the order of a present-day major sporting fixture. Their uniquely attractive feature, the combination of idealism with practical skills, gives an extraordinary insight into the medieval mind, and into the origins of many of the attitudes that colour life and behaviour in the western world today."--Jacket. Contents; The origins of the tournament; the tournament in north-west Europe to 1400; the tournament in Germany - Italy - Spain; the late medieval and Renaissance tournament - spectacles - pas d'armes - challenges; the dangers of tournaments - spiritual condemnation and public disorder; tournament armour; tournaments as events. Subjects; Europe. History. Knights and knighthood. Knights and knighthood Europe History. Tournaments, Medieval. Tournaments, Medieval, in literature. 

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