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Richard Barber.
The Knight and Chivalry; second edition.
Published London: Cardinal/Sphere Books, 1974 (previous edn. was Longman, 1970).
ISBN 0351152709.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Cox & Wyman, London, Fakenham & Reading.
Size: 129x195x25mm.
Page count: text 399pp; plates 24pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: covers scuffed and creased, edges and corners worn, spine creased; pages yellowed with age; previous owner’s name on the half-title page, but the main text appears to be free of marking.

This item £2.50
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Boydell edn. in print at £16.99]
Weight without packaging: 414g.

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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.
Appendix: Order of the Banda.

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Illustrations: 16 pages of monochrome plates and 8 of colour
Maps & plans: 3
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 21pp
Index: yes

See also | Knights & knighthood | Chivalry |
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