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The Medieval Tournament as Spectacle: Tourneys, Jousts and Pas d'Armes, 1100-1600

By Alan V. Murray (Editor), Karen Watts (Editor), Alan V. Murray (Contribution by), Cathy Blunk (Contribution by), Iason-Eleftherios Tzouriadis (Contribution by), James Beswick (Contribution by), James Titterton (Contribution by), Karen Watts (Contribution by), Marina V. Viallon (Contribution by), Martyn Lawrence (Contribution by), Natalie Anderson (Contribution by), Ralph Moffat (Contribution by), Rosalind Brown-Grant (Contribution by)
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By Alan V. Murray (Editor), Karen Watts (Editor), Alan V. Murray (Contribution by), Cathy Blunk (Contribution by), Iason-Eleftherios Tzouriadis (Contribution by), James Beswick (Contribution by), James Titterton (Contribution by), Karen Watts (Contribution by), Marina V. Viallon (Contribution by), Martyn Lawrence (Contribution by), Natalie Anderson (Contribution by), Ralph Moffat (Contribution by), Rosalind Brown-Grant (Contribution by)
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Fresh insights into the development of the tournament as an opportunity for social display.


The period from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century witnessed a rapid development of the tournament. Alongside the original tourney — a mass battle fought between opposing armies of knights with minimal and rudimentary regulation — new forms of chivalric military contests emerged, in which entertainment featured alongside the necessity of practice for war. The joust featured individual combats, wi...

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