The Medieval Tournament as Spectacle – Tourneys, Jousts and Pas d′Armes, 1100–1600: Royal Armouries Research Series

Preface and Acknowledgements - Martyn Lawrence Introduction: From Mass Combat to Field of Cloth of Gold - Alan V Murray Now Form Up Close Together! Tactics and Ethos of the Tourney in Early German Sources (Twelfth to Thirteenth Centuries) - Alan V Murray Por pris et por enor: Ideas of Honour as Reflected in the Medieval Tournament - James Titterton Richard II of England and the Smithfield Tournament of October 1390: An Instrument to Establish Royal Authority - James Beswick Alle myn harneys for the justes: Documents as a Source for Medieval Jousting Armour - Ralph Moffat The Tournament Saddle - Marina V. Viallon Between Sport and Theatre: How Spectacular was the Pas d'armes? - Cathy Blunk Art Imitating Life Imitating Art? Representations of the Pas d'armes in Burgundian Prose Romance: The Case of Jehan d'Avennes - Rosalind Brown-Grant The Foot Combat as Tournament Event: Equipment, Space and Forms - Iason-Eleftherios Tzouriadis Power and Pageantry: The Tournament at the Court of Maximilian I - Natalie Anderson The Field of Cloth of Gold: Arms, Armour and the Sporting Prowess of King Henry VIII and King Francis I - Karen Watts