ABSTRACT

First published in 2005.  This definitive work contains a collection of texts written at the time when Chivalry was a living tradition spread across the whole of Europe. In it are fascinating accounts of Chivalry’s history and origins, the education of knights, chivalric love and the religious and military orders of knighthood. Nowhere else are the facts of Chivalry brough together so brilliantly.

chapter |52 pages

The Equipment

chapter |64 pages

The Chivalric Character

chapter |74 pages

Tournaments and Jousts

chapter |28 pages

Progress of Chivalry in England

From the Norman Conquest to the Close of the Reign of Edward IT