Description and condition:

Orange boards hardback, dustcover, 4to, 225pp, decorated EPs, index, notes, select bibliography, glossary, colour and b/w illustrations.

Very good, small annotation to title page, else nice bright clean pages. In good or better, clipped, dustcover with slight edgewear.

Contents:

The origins of the tournament; the tournament in North-West Europe to 1400; the tournament in Germany; tournament in Italy and Spain; the Late Medieval and Renaissance tournament: spectacles, pas d'armes, and challenges; the dangers of tournament: spiritual condemnation and public disorder; tournament armour; tournament as events; epilogue.