Tournaments: Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages
by Barber, Richard W., and Barker, Juliet R. V
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1555844006
- ISBN 13
- 9781555844004
- Seller
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989. Cloth, 225 pages, illustrations (some colour); 32 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First American Edition. Dust jacket, toned, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "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." - Publisher. CONTENTS: The origins of the tournament; the tournament in the 13th and 14th centuries; the tournament in Germany - Italy - Spain; the late medieval and Renaissance tournament - spectacles - pas d'armes - challenges; the dangers of tournaments - spiritual condemnation and public disorder; tournament armour;. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 119144
- Title
- Tournaments: Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages
- Author
- Barber, Richard W., and Barker, Juliet R. V
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 1555844006
- ISBN 13
- 9781555844004
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Size
- Folio
- Bookseller catalogs
- European / 3. Medieval / Gothic; European / 3. Medieval / All; Genre & Subject / Sporting;
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