Tournaments: Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages
By (author): "Juliet Barker, Richard Barber"
Publish Date:
January 1st 1978
ISBN0851154700
ISBN139780851154701
AsinTournaments: Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages
Original titleTournaments: Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages
This book draws on recent research into the tournament, the first sport for which detailed rules and regulations survive, and gives insight into the medieval mind. There are parallels with modern sport and a series of illustrations which include some of the finest surviving medieval manuscripts.