By Michael Prestwich
An insider’s advisor: easy methods to develop into a knight, wield a sword, subscribe to a campaign, and make your fortune.
The knight is the very best warrior of the center a long time. totally armored and fixed on an impressive charger, he turns out invincible. Honor and glory look ahead to him as, guided via the chivalric code, he fights with lance and sword.
This rigorously researched but wonderful booklet offers the entire crucial info you want to develop into a winning knight within the later heart a while, throughout the interval of the Hundred Years’ battle. if you pass on a campaign? Which order of chivalry may you think about becoming a member of? what's required should you battle through the rite of knighthood?
listed below are the solutions to those and plenty of extra questions plus useful suggestion on subject matters akin to gear, struggling with tools, and the conventions of war. however the knightly lifestyles isn't all battles and sieges: there also are tournaments and jousts to take pleasure in and the area of courtly love.
in response to modern lives and outlines, this book―written through a number one medieval historian―paints a brilliant photograph of what it used to be wish to be a medieval knight. ninety illustrations, 30 in colour