Knight
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Knight
(Eyewitness guides)(A Dorling Kindersley book)
Dorling Kindersley, 2003
- : pbk
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"Hardback edition first published in Great Britain in 1993"--T.p. verso
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Did you know caltrops - nasty looking spiked objects - used to be scattered over the ground before battle to injure animals or men who trod on them?
Take a look at what the life of a knight was really like, from young squires learning the trade to weaponry, armour and battle.
Table of Contents
- The first knights
- The Normans
- Making a knight
- Iron, iron everywhere
- Fashion in steel
- Armour, the inside story
- Arms and the man
- On horseback
- The castle
- The castle at war
- Siege warfare
- Arming for the fight
- The enemy
- Into battle
- The castle at peace
- The lord of the manor
- The lady of the manor
- The ideal of chivalry
- The tournament
- The joust
- Foot combat
- Heraldry
- Hunting and hawking
- Faith and pilgrimage
- The crusades
- Knights and Christ
- Knights of the Rising Sun
- The professionals
- The decline of chivalry
- Did you know?
- Timeline
- Find out more.
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