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by RUDORFF, RAYMOND:

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030429442X
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9780304294428
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but price- clip to dw/dj.Pictorial colour dw/dj with spine/backstrip slightly sunned/faded with minimal bumping to head+foot.Black cloth boards with gilt silhouette of two armoured knights fighting to upper and gilt letters to spine/backstrip,with pictorial illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, 240pp includes profuse b/w+ colour contemporary illus/plates,bw+colour photographs,a bibliography and an index. The armoured knight on horseback,his shield ablaze with the heraldic arms of his line,his lance and flashing broadsword is the best-known,most spectacular and - for most people - the most typical and romantic figure of the Middle Ages.Without knights and the code of behaviour and ideals attached to them and known as 'chivalry',medieval European civilisation as we know it would not have existed.The knight dominated the theory and practice of warfare until the arrival of the English longbow and,later, gunpowder.He inspired some of the great masterpieces of European literature and eventually became one of the world's great legendary figures.He gave European nobility its heraldry,he inspired much of the pageantry and traditional splendour we associate with the Middle Ages and in his time he gave a new dimension to Christianity.He represented a whole way of life and an ideal of human behaviour in a warlike society.Even though many knights (if not the majority) failed to live up to the high ideals of chivalry which knighthood inspired,they created the popular image of the gallant gentleman-adventurer on horseback. With its 24pp of colour illus and over a hundred others in monochrome,this book gives a clear,lively and thoroughly documented account of the origins and development of this astonishing brotherhood of arms,from the time of the first mailed warriors on horseback in the Dark Ages to the Hundred Years War when knight pageantry reached its peak and fell beneath the arrow storm of the English yeomen,never to rise again. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

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Bookseller
R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
THE KNIGHTS and their world.
Author
RUDORFF, RAYMOND:
Illustrator
illus with b/w+colour contemporary illustrations and b/w+colour photographs.
Book Condition
Used - FINE.
Jacket Condition
Near FINE.
Quantity Available
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Edition
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
030429442X
ISBN 13
9780304294428
Publisher
LONDON.CASSELL,1974.
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
1974
Keywords
q52.GENERAL.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.ISBN 030429442X.KNIGHTLY LIFE+CULTURE+CHIVALRY_HUNDRED YEARS WAR.ENGLISH YEOMEN+LONGBOW.WAR+MIDDLE AGES.ARMS+ARMOURCRUSADES.FEUDAL SYSTEM.TEUTONIC ORDER.HOSPITALLERS(KNIGHTS OF ST JOHN).HORSE IN WARFAREKNIGHTS+HERALDRY.
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