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Title: Tournaments : Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages by Richard Barber, Juliet Barker ISBN: 0-85115-781-5 Publisher: Boydell Press Pub. Date: 06 July, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent
Comment: Easily the best general book on Tournaments available. Some people might have wanted to more detail in certain areas buut when you concider what the authors are trying to achieve I feel they found an excellent balance.
Rating: 4
Summary: Everything you wanted to know about tournaments...
Comment: While books about tournaments usually just describe what tournaments generally were like .., this book takes a look at the actual historical events themselves. It describes many historical tournaments, famous participants, the backgrounds and the changing nature of the events from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance etc. In fact, the book tries to cover almost everything related to tournaments (from public disorder in tournaments to the time of day). Even so, the book holds together well and is easy to read. It is illustrated with fine historical paintings and drawings from books of the time with only a couple of photos (no modern or dismal 19-Century historical sketches).
As a 'better-than-most' book, it's only weakness is that with a mere 200+ pages it can only give a quick synthesis about the various topics it examines. For instance, the well written chapter on tournament armour could have been a bit longer (only 12 pages).
In all, the best book about tournaments so far. But still hoping for even a better book...
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Title: The Mediaeval Tournament by R. Coltman Clephan ISBN: 0486286207 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Jousts and Tournaments: Charny and the Rules for Chivalric Sport in Fourteenth-Century France by Geoffroi De Charny, Steven Muhlberger ISBN: 1891448285 Publisher: Chivalry Bookshelf Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.99 |
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Title: Book of Knighthood & Chivalry (and the anonymous Ordene de Chevalerie) by Ramon Lull, Brian R. Price ISBN: 189144803X Publisher: Chivalry Bookshelf Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe by Richard W. Kaeuper ISBN: 0199244588 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Book of Chivalry of Geoffroi De Charny: Text, Context, and Translation by Richard W. Kaeuper, Elspeth Kennedy, Geoffroi De Livre De Chevalerie Carny ISBN: 0812215796 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
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