Knight
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Knight
(Eyewitness guides)(A Dorling Kindersley book)
Dorling Kindersley, 2003
- : pbk
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"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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