Tournaments: Jousts, Chivalry, and Pageants in the Middle Ages
By (author): "Juliet Barker, Richard Barber"
Publish Date:
January 1st 1978
ISBN1555844006
ISBN139781555844004
AsinTournaments: Jousts, Chivalry, and Pageants in the Middle Ages
Original titleTournaments: Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages
Re-created is every aspect of a picturesque martial art that originated as a violent, no-holds-barred melee in a field and evolved over 500 years into a carefully regulated ritual whose splendor and extravagance eventually overwhelmed all but the richest of European monarchs. Illustrated.