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Title

Tournaments: a thousand years of chivalry / edited by Stefan Krause.

Publication

• London : Thomas Del Mar Ltd., [2022]
• ©2022

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Additional Authors

Krause, Stefan (Curator)

Description

278 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm

Summary

This volume contains fifteen essays on the history of tournaments based on new research by leading international experts. It is the first-ever book to examine the development both of mediaeval chivalry and jousting, and the less well-known half-millennium of the sport's evolution from the Renaissance to the early twenty-first century. The essays in this book explore subjects such as the earliest documented written rules for the joust, how tournaments evolved from military training to courtly festivities during the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Baroque quintains and horse ballets, Romantic tournaments organized in the nineteenth and twentieth century, and the modern revival of jousting as a sport. The essays offer a new look at key moments in the history of European chivalry. Some explore aspects of jousting that have not been studied before such as tourneys in Renaissance France and Hungary, and the impact of tournaments on the equestrian culture in the southern states of the US during the nineteenth century.

Alternative Title

Thousand years of chivalry

Subject

• Tournaments, Medieval
• Chivalry
• Knights and knighthood
• tournaments
• Chivalry
• Knights and knighthood
• Tournaments, Medieval

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Tournaments: a thousand years of chivalry / Stefan Krause -- From war to spectacle: the tournament from the High to Late Middle Ages / Richard Barber -- Sperschïbe, Mayndefer and Rennhawbn: armour for the tournament until the dawn of the armour garniture / Dirk H. Breiding -- The Castilian Book of the Order of the Band (c. 1330: the earliest documented written rules for the joust and tourney / Noel Fallows -- Jousting under the holy crown: tournaments at the Hungarian Royal Court in the sixteenth century / Borbála Gulyás -- Politics as pomp and circumstance: tournaments at the courts of the Austrian Hapsburgs in the sixteenth century / Matthias Plaffenbichler -- Never-ending chivalry: tournaments in Renaissance France from Charles VIII to Louis XIII / Marina Viallon -- Pieces of advantage: tournament armour in Tudor England / Thom Richardson -- Chivalry illustrated: tournament books of the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance / Stefan Krause -- "A book [...] containing various jousts of His Grace": the tournament books of Archduke Ferdinand II (1529-1595) / Veronika Sanbichler -- Dancing with horses: the history of equestrian ballets and cavalry spectacles in Europe / Marie-Louise von Plessen -- The Eglington Tournament of 1839: dreams and reality of jousting in the Gothic revival / Jonathan Tavares -- Memory and charity: courtly carousels staged during the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph -- Playing the game: Belgian tournaments in the early twentieth century / Nicolas P. Baptiste -- Knights of the republic: the Ring Tournament in the United States / Natalie Zacek -- The twenty-first century knight: historical jousting in practice c.1996-2014 / Tobias Capwell.

ISBN

• 9783990202258
• 3990202251

OCLC

• on1334011001
• 1334011001
• SCSB-14292722

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library