5/8/2023 0 Comments A duke in shining armour![]() ![]() Indeed Tournaments: A Thousand Years of Chivalry provides a welcome antidote to the tendency for scholars of chivalric culture to announce the decline and death of their subject. This collection of 15 essays, each by a different author-from the opening chapter “From War to Spectacle” by Richard Barber (University of York) via “Jousting under the Holy Crown”, covering the 16th-century Hungarian royal court, by Borbála Gulyás (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest), to the “21st-Century Knight” by Tobias Capwell, jouster and curator (Wallace Collection, London)-opens up a subject that, as these chapter headings suggest, extends considerably beyond the 11th-century origins of the knightly sport of the tournament. Chaucer’s “Gentle Knight”, forever “pricking on the plaine”, continues to shape our understanding of the medieval world. ![]() The idea of the knight is embedded in our cultural imagination. ![]()
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