Buy this book on-line BARBER ,RICHARD & BARKER, JULIET: : TOURNAMENTS: JOUSTS,CHIVALRY AND PAGEANTS IN THE MIDDLE AGESUK.SUFFOLK.BOYDELL PRESS,1989. ISBN 0851154700.
UK,Large Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn but price-clipped dw/dj. Bright,clean,glossy,laminated,colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj [depicting a furious melee from a late 14thC Florentine cassone (wedding chest) - Musee, Tours; photograph Scala - the border is from the opening page of the contemporary biography of Jacques de Lalaing (Bibliotheque Nationale,Paris)]; with negligible shelf- wear and minimal creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Head+foot of spine/
backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges bright and clean.Bright,clean,orange paper-covered boards with colour,mediaeval scenic illustrated feps+b/w similar contemporary scenic,rear eps.UK,large Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2-225pp includes b/w scroll vignette illustrated half-title, double-page colour illustrated title page, contents list,illuminated colour illustrated frntis,prologue,8 chapters, epilogue,glossary,profuse b/w+colour contemporary illustrations,select biblio, notes and an index.
The romantic image of the tournament, where steel-clad knights fought to win the love of ladies watching them,has perhaps been the reason why serious historians have tended to regard them as frivolous occasions.Lately,however,this attitude has changed,and the present book,which draws on recent research,is the first to present a coherent picture of the tournament.
The subject proves to be a fascinating one, giving an extraordinary range of insights into the medieval mind,and into the origins of many of the attitudes that colour life and behaviour in the western world today.The tournament is the first sport for which detailed rules and regulations survive: from its history emerges the concept of 'fair play',and the word itself survives as a description of many of today's sporting events.There are unexpected parallels with modern sport - the problems of public order,with entire towns on full police alert for tournaments,and the emergence of sporting heroes whose prowess has little practical aplication.The tournament reflects,as might be expected,the history of warfare; but many aspects of theatre are also found in the tournament.Indeed,every theatre censor in Europe until the last few decades would have banned the occasion in 1428 when the Spanish king and his knights jousted on Sunday dressed as God and the Twelve Apostles.The details of tournaments yield unexpected and lively vignettes of mediaeval life: a father's proud record of his son's first tournament,an 80-year-old knight jousting with his grandson,a knight begging for advice on 'magic arts', knights practising in the streets of Venice with bells on their trappings to warn bystanders to get out of the way.
The visual aspects of the tournament are shown in a series of illustrations which bring the text vividly to life,and which include some of the finest surviving mediaeval manuscripts.Heavy tome - 1.3Kg unpackaged!!
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