Knight
Book - 2015
Here is an inside look at the history of medieval knights and their armor, jousting, heraldry, and crusades. The life of the knight is considered from battles and banquets to sieges and chivalry.
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- Subjects
- Published
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New York :
DK Publishing
2015.
©2015 - Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Edition
- [Third edition]
- Item Description
- Previous editions: ©1993, ©2007.
Includes index.
"Discover the world of the medieval knight - from battles to banquets, sieges to chivalry"--Cover. - Physical Description
- 72 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
- ISBN
- 9781465435743
9781465435729
- The first knights
- The Normans
- Making a knight
- Armor
- Fashion in steel
- Inside the armor
- Arms and the man
- On horseback
- The castle
- The castle at war
- Siege warfare
- Arming to fight
- The enemy
- Into battle
- Castle life
- Manor lords
- Manor ladies
- The ideal of chivalry
- The tournament
- The joust
- Foot combat
- Heraldry
- Hunting
- Faith and pilgrimage
- The crusades
- Knights of Christ
- Japanese Knights
- The professionals
- Knights' end
- Did you know?
- Timeline
- Find out more
- Glossary
- Index.