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Richard Barber.
The Knight and Chivalry.
Published London: Longman, 1970.
ISBN 0582126118.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Butler & Tanner, Frome & London.
Size: 158x228x39mm.
Page count: text xv,383pp; plates 40pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: the dustjacket on this copy is worn on the edges and corners, rather yellowed overall with its spine faded; boards a little discoloured on the edges, but not badly worn; pages yellowed with age; at least 6 pages have a little inked marking.

This item £5.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price for current edn. £16.99]
Weight without packaging: 863g.

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Contents:
I. Feudal warrior: The knight; Knighthood; Heroic age — Chansons de geste;
II. Chivalry & literature: Traditions of love & attitudes to women; Troubadours & courts of Provence; Minnesingers; Romances of chivalry; Knight & clerk; Chivalric biographies & handbooks;
III. Chivalry in action: Tournament as sport -- & politics; Warfare;
IV. Chivalry & religion: Church, warfare & crusades; Military orders in Palestine; Templars in exile; Hospitallers at Rhodes & Malta; Teutonic knights; Spanish orders;
V. Chivalry & the state: The prince & chivalry; Secular orders; Epic of chivalry revived; Critics of chivalry & advocates of reform.

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Illustrations: 32 pages of monochrome & 8 of colour plates
Maps & plans: 3
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 19pp
Index: yes

See also | Knights & knighthood | Chivalry |
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