Product details:
ISBN13: | 9780851159423 |
ISBN10: | 0851159427 |
Binding: | Paperback |
No. of pages: | 224 pages |
Size: | 239x156x16 mm |
Weight: | 372 g |
Language: | English |
Illustrations: | 8 colour. Illustrations, color |
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The Tournament in England, 1100?1400
Edition number: New ed
Publisher: Boydell Press
Date of Publication: 3 April 2003
Number of Volumes: Print PDF
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Short description:
A survey of the tournament in England from its first emergence in the 12th century to the beginning of the 15th, when technical changes altered its very nature.
Long description:
Juliet Barker surveys the tournament in England from its first emergence in the twelfth century to the beginning of the fifteenth, when it was revolutionised by the emergence of technical changes which altered its very nature. The original publication of this study, deriving from Juliet Barker's PhD thesis supervised by Maurice Keen, reestablished the importance of the tournament at the heart of medieval chivalric culture. The first serious scholarly publication for over half a century, it dramatically reawakened interest in the historical context of tournaments, and is especially valuable for its detailed evidence on the early years.
Tournaments are shown as far more than just sport. They had wide political, social and military implications; in England their potential as a political instrument was quickly realised: for the disaffected they became a means of rebellion and feuding, but for the king and court they were a powerful propaganda machine. Participation in tournaments was also a way to earn a coveted reputation for chivalry; the passion for tourneying could bring knights lasting fame. Military demands accounted for the increasing sophistication of armour and weapons, partly in response to the demands of the tourneyers, who needed military training that reflected their role in actual combat. This wide-ranging study looks at the tournament from all these angles, and in so doing produces an exemplary history of the first three hundred years of their development.
JULIET BARKER is a well-known broadcaster and writer, whose other books include The Brontes and Wordsworth: A Life in Letters.
Scholarly study - does much to illuminate an important element of chivalric culture. HISTORY
Barker's sterling book is clearly written and logically organized. Its scholarship is &&&224; l'outrance, its appeal to the student of the chivalric period &&&224; plaisance. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
An admirable book that can be strongly recommended to anyone desirous of understanding either the nature or the significance of the most popular sport of the later-medieval nobility. SPECULUM
Tournaments are shown as far more than just sport. They had wide political, social and military implications; in England their potential as a political instrument was quickly realised: for the disaffected they became a means of rebellion and feuding, but for the king and court they were a powerful propaganda machine. Participation in tournaments was also a way to earn a coveted reputation for chivalry; the passion for tourneying could bring knights lasting fame. Military demands accounted for the increasing sophistication of armour and weapons, partly in response to the demands of the tourneyers, who needed military training that reflected their role in actual combat. This wide-ranging study looks at the tournament from all these angles, and in so doing produces an exemplary history of the first three hundred years of their development.
JULIET BARKER is a well-known broadcaster and writer, whose other books include The Brontes and Wordsworth: A Life in Letters.
Scholarly study - does much to illuminate an important element of chivalric culture. HISTORY
Barker's sterling book is clearly written and logically organized. Its scholarship is &&&224; l'outrance, its appeal to the student of the chivalric period &&&224; plaisance. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
An admirable book that can be strongly recommended to anyone desirous of understanding either the nature or the significance of the most popular sport of the later-medieval nobility. SPECULUM