The Ideals And Practice Of Medieval Knighthood : Papers From The First and Second Strawberry Hill Conferences

Woodbridge, Suffolk , UK: The Boydell Press. Near Fine in Good dust jacket. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0851154425 . FINE brown cloth-covered boards with bright silver-gilt titling to the spine. Near As New - sharp cornered, tight and very clean. Looks unused. In the original publisher's lettered dust-jacket. The dust-jacket is chipped, torn with a little loss to the head of the d/j spine, & lightly stained/discoloured. The d/j is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover & now looks much better/pretty good - see images. Page fore-edges have just a tiny hint of flecking. Internally and Externally Excellent. No Inscriptions or Marks. (xiii) + (1) + 177 pp. Illustrated in b/w & with a couple of charts. The Contents (11 Papers / Essays) by various experts in the field = The Status of the Squire: The Northern Evidence - Matthew Bennett; The Game of Chess: An Aspect of Medieval Knightly Culture - Richard Eales; Anglo-Norman Knightly Burials - Brian Golding; The Tournament & Chivalry in German Tournament books of the 16th century & in the literary works of Emperor Maximilian I - William Henry Jackson; Gadifer de La Salle: A late Medieval Knight Errant - Maurice Keen; Knights & Knighthood in Germany in the central Middle Ages - Richard Mortimer; Knights & Burgesses in the Feudal Epic - Peter S. Noble; The Ideal Knight as presented in some French narrative poems, c.1090-c.1240: An Outline Sketch - Sally North; The Occitan Squaire in the 12th & 13th Centuries - Linda M. Paterson; The Knight, his Arms and Armour in the 11th & 12th centuries - Ian Pierce; and "The Prince answers back: 'Les enseignemens de Théodore Paliologue' ". - D. J. A. Ross. A Near Fine/Fine book in a Good Only d/j. See Images. ; Ideals & Practice Of Knighthood; 8vo 9" - 10" tall .