Isbn: 9780060153397 - the knight in history (22 risultati)

Condizione: Fair. A magisterial history of the origins, reality, and legend of the knightA carefully researched, concise, readable, and entertaining account of an institution that remains a part of the Western imagination. --Los Angeles TimesBorn out of the chaos of the early Middle Ages, the armored and highly mobile knight revolutionized warfare and quickly became a mythic figure in history. From the Knights Templars and English knighthood to the crusades and chivalry, The Knight in History, by acclaimed medievalist Frances Gies, bestselling coauthor of Life in a Medieval Castle, paints a remarkable true picture of knighthood--exploring the knight's earliest appearance as an agent of lawless violence, his reemergence as a dynamic social entity, his eventual disappearance from the European stage, and his transformation into Western culture's most iconic hero.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condizione: Fair. A magisterial history of the origins, reality, and legend of the knightA carefully researched, concise, readable, and entertaining account of an institution that remains a part of the Western imagination. --Los Angeles TimesBorn out of the chaos of the early Middle Ages, the armored and highly mobile knight revolutionized warfare and quickly became a mythic figure in history. From the Knights Templars and English knighthood to the crusades and chivalry, The Knight in History, by acclaimed medievalist Frances Gies, bestselling coauthor of Life in a Medieval Castle, paints a remarkable true picture of knighthood--exploring the knight's earliest appearance as an agent of lawless violence, his reemergence as a dynamic social entity, his eventual disappearance from the European stage, and his transformation into Western culture's most iconic hero.…

Condizione: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Very Good -. (1984), 255pp, illus., red cloth, light shelfwear to cover, browning to last pg from newspaper clipping, slight edgewear to dj, contents clean.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Ed. 255 pages. Illustrated. Knights.

hardcover. Condizione: very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. First. Illustrated. 255 pages. 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: Harper & Row, (1984). First edition. Slight damage to fore-edge of front board and wrapper, still about very good.

hardcover. Condizione: Good. DUST JACKET. First Edition. First Edition. Pages are crisp and clean, no marking. Cover is verygood. Binding is tight/good. ex-library book with normal library stamps & stickers.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. THE KNIGHT IN HISTORY By: Frances Gies 1984 1st Edition Harper & Row, Publishers, New York ISBN: 0-06-015339-3 CONTENTS: Acknowledgments - xv 1. What is a Knight? - 1 2. The First Knights. - 7 3. Knights of the First Crusade. - 21 4. The Troubadours and the Literature of Knighthood. - 47 5. William Marshal: Knighthood at its Zenith. - 81 6. The Knights Templars: Soldiers, Diplomats, Bankers. - 107 7. Bertrand Du Guesclin: A Knight of the Fourteenth Century. - 137 8. English Knights of the Fifteenth Century: Sir John Fastolf and the Pastons. - 167 9. The Long Twilight of Chivalry. - 195 Notes. - 209 Bibliography - 237 INDEX - 249 - 255 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS: • Carolingian Warriors - 10 • Equestrian Statue of Charlemagne - 12 • The battle of Hastings - 13 • Eleventh-Century Knights - 16 • Norman Ships Loaded for the Invasion of England, 1066 - 17 • Vassal Swears Fidelity to his Lord - 26 • Homage - 27 • Knights Foraging on the First Crusade - 37 • Crusading Knights meet Saracens - 39 • Siege of Antioch - 40 • Epidemic Among the Crusaders at Antioch - 41 • Crusaders Bombard Nicaea with Heads of Dead Enemies - 44 • Arnaut Daniel - 49 • Ruins of the Castle of Ventadorn - 52 • Troubadour Bound with a Golden Thread of Love - 57 • Courtly Love: David and Bathsheba - 58 • Page from Arnaut Daniel's "Lo Ferm Voler" - 67 • Battle of Yrain and Gawain - 74 • Marriage of Yrain and Laudine - 75 • The Knightly Virtues: Loyalty - 77 • The Knightly Virtues: The Knight Rescues a Maiden in Distress - 78 • Effigy on William Marshal's Tomb - 83 • Knighting - 86 • A Tournament Melee - 87 • Twelfth-Century Knights - 88 • Late Twelfth-Century Armor - 89 • Twelfth-Century Tournament: Lancelot Fights while Guinevere Watches - 90 • House in Martel, France, where the young King died - 94 • Thirteen-Century Ivory Chess Piece - 102 • Temple Church, Laon - 109 • Grotesque Heads, Temple Church, Laon - 111 • Ruins of Temple Church, Lanleff, Brittany - 112 • Hospitaler Castle, Le Poet-Laval, Provence - 112 • Entrance Gate to Templar Community, Richerenches, Provence - 114 • Interior, Chastel Blanc - 115 • Krak Des Chevaliers - 118 • Statue of Bertrand Du Guesclin, Dinan, Brittany -139 • Fourteenth-Century Tournament - 141 • Fourteenth-Century Tournament - 143 • Fourteenth-Century Brass Rubbing: Sir Hugh Hastings - 144 • Battle of Crecy, 1346 - 146 • Castle of Montmuran, Brittany - 149 • Knighting on the Battlefield - 151 • The Black Prince, Effigy in Canterbury Cathedral - 158 • Fifteenth-Century Plate Armor: St. George and the Dragon - 171 • Siege of a town, Fifteenth-Century - 173 • Caister Castle - 186 • Spandrel of the Main Gateway of St. Benet's Abby - 190 • Gatehouse, St. Benet's Abby - 193 • Fifteenth-Century Tournament - 199 • Milanese Armor, c. 1450 - 200 • Sir Galahad, D. G. Rossetti - 205 MAPS: • The First Crusade - 23 • Syria and Palestine - 117 • Egypt: The Crusade of St. Louis - 126 • France in the Hundred Years War - 147 • The Loire Campaign, 1429 - 179 CONDITION: Exterior: Hard Bound with Protective Sleeve. Red Cloth cover with Gold writing on the Binding side. Indented Knight on Front. Like New Condition. Interior: Like New Condition. Loaded with Black and White Photos, Illustrations and Maps. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Frances Carney Gies 6/10/1915 - 12/18/2013 Frances Carney Gies is the Author of Joan of Arc and co-author, with her husband Joseph Gies, of Women in the Middle Ages. Together they both worked on what became the "Medieval Life" Trilogy with: Life in a Medieval City and Life in a Medieval Castle and Life in a Medieval Village. Frances was born in a world in which the U. S. wasn't even involved in World War I yet, in which there was a Czar and an Ottoman Sultan and an Austrian Emperor and a Kaiser, in which there was a special Theory of Relativity but not yet a general one, in which it was thought that possibly all stars were within just one galaxy. …

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. 1984 Hardcover 1st Edition. Very faint shelf wear to DJ. Pages unmarked. Looks unread.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good +. very good +. First Edition. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Well-illustrated. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 255 pp.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair to Good. 255 pp, index, plates. Dj has chips and tears along edges, sunned spine. Previous owner's pastedown ffep - interior o/w unmarked and solid.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Condizione: VERY GOOD. Condizione sovraccoperta: VERY GOOD. 8vo. pp. xii + 255 + black and white illustrations and maps. Original red cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper.

hardcover. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.