The Medieval Tournament as Spectacle: Tourneys, Jousts and Pas d'Armes, 1100-1600
Description
Fresh insights into the development of the tournament as an opportunity for social display. The period from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century witnessed a rapid development of the tournament. Alongside the original tourney - a mass battle fought between opposing armies of knights with minimal and rudimentary regulation - new forms of chivalric military contests emerged, in which entertainment featured alongside the necessity of practice for war. The joust featured individual combats, with increasingly elaborate rules and variations in form and accompanying pageantry, while the passage of arms placed tournaments within theatrical and allegorical formats. This volume brings together the latest research on the late medieval tournament, demonstrating how such events, particularly at the courts of France, Burgundy, England and the German principalities, were increasingly integrated in wider festivities, ceremonies and diplomatic negotiations. Published in association with the Royal Armouries, it will appeal to all those interested in chivalric culture and medieval warfare.
Product Details
Price
$45.00
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer
Publish Date
October 16, 2023
Pages
263
Dimensions
6.14 X 9.21 X 0.55 inches | 0.82 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781837651085
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About the Author
Alan V. Murray, PhD, is editor of the International Medieval Bibliography.
Daniel Jaquet is senior researcher at the University of Bern for the SNSF project Martial Culture in Medieval Towns. He holds a PhD in medieval history (University of Geneva, 2013) and specializes in cultural history of martial practices at the end of the Middle Ages. Iason-Eleftherios Tzouriadis is the online blog editor for the Martial Culture in Medieval Towns project. His research examines arms and armour typologies, function and the perception of these objects as cultural artefacts in various martial contexts. Regula Schmid is professor of medieval history at the Department of Medieval History at the University of Bern. She is the lead researcher of the SNSF project Martial Culture in Medieval Towns, and has published extensively on urban political, martial, and memorial culture. Her current research focuses on urban militias and the impact of war on society, politics, and everyday life in late medieval Switzerland.
JAMES TITTERTON received his PhD in Medieval Studies from the University of Leeds. In addition to his work on the history of warfare, he has published on crusader rhetoric, chivalry and the medieval tournament.
Martyn Lawrence is the Publishing Manager at the Royal Armouries Museum. A former post-doctoral researcher at the University of York, he is a frequent contributor to international conferences and has published several articles in journals and edited book collections.
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RALPH MOFFAT has the great privilege of being the Curator of European Arms and Armour at Glasgow Museums. He is responsible for the care of, research, and dissemination of information on the people of this City's fantastic collection.
Rosalind Brown-Grant is Professor Emerita of Late Medieval French Literature, University of Leeds. She has published on Christine de Pizan, late medieval romance and historiographical texts, and text-image relations in medieval manuscripts; she has also edited and translated several Middle French texts.
Reviews
highly informative and clearly written by major experts in the field.-- "THE RICARDIAN"
