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Lädt ... Jousting in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia (Armour and Weapons)von Noel Fallows
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This substantial study might almost be called “The Encyclopedia of Iberian Jousting.” It brings together a wide variety of evidence – textual, artistic and material – on the practice and significance of jousting in Spain and Portugal between the late fourteenth and late sixteenth centuries. That may seem to casual inspection a rather narrow subject, but a sympathetic reader will soon be persuaded that jousting, its culture and its technology were as important as medieval art and literature have always told us it was. Indeed, Professor Fallows’ thorough investigation of his chosen subject has succeeded in producing what may be the single best book on jousting.
Winner of the University of Georgia's Creative Research Medal 2012 Winner of the 2012 La corónica International Book Award Jousting was for some 500 years the major spectator sport in western Europe. And yet, despite its enormous popularity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, very little is known about its practicalities. How was the score determined and kept? How and why did jousting armour evolve, how effective was it, and how did it differ from the field armour worn by knights in battle? What constituted technical virtuosity in the lists? And why did jousting die out? This book uses previously untapped Iberian source material to provide answers to such questions. It focuses on three jousting manuals, written by practising champions at the time: Ponç de Menaguerra's Lo Cavaller (`The Knight', 1493); Juan Quijada de Reayo's Doctrina del arte de la cavalleria (`Doctrine of the Art of Chivalry', 1548); and Luis Zapata's Del Justador (`On the Jouster', c.1589-93). As well as editions, with the first English translation, of these important texts, it includes introductions and an analytical study; there are also chapters on the arms and armour of the joust. Nearly 200 colour and black-and-white illustrations, many never previously published, illuminate the sometimes complex technical terminology of these authors, and provide further evidence of how weapons and armour were actually used. Noel Fallows is Professor of Spanish and Associate Dean, University of Georgia. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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