Medieval Tournament as Spectacle

JAMES TITTERTON received his PhD in Medieval Studies from the University of Leeds. In addition to his work on the history of warfare, he has published on crusader rhetoric, chivalry and the medieval tournament. RALPH MOFFAT is the Curator of European Arms and Armour at Glasgow Museums. He is responsible for the care of, research, and dissemination of information on the people of this City's collection. Rosalind Brown-Grant is Professor of Late Medieval French Literature at the University of Leeds.

• Preface and Acknowledgements - Martyn LawrenceIntroduction: From Mass Combat to Field of Cloth of Gold - Alan V MurrayNow Form Up Close Together! Tactics and Ethos of the Tourney in Early German Sources (Twelfth to Thirteenth Centuries) - Alan V MurrayPor pris et por enor: Ideas of Honour as Reflected in the Medieval Tournament - James TittertonRichard II of England and the Smithfield Tournament of October 1390: An Instrument to Establish Royal Authority - James BeswickAlle myn harneys for the justes: Documents as a Source for Medieval Jousting Armour - Ralph MoffatThe Tournament Saddle - Marina V. ViallonBetween Sport and Theatre: How Spectacular was the Pas d'armes? - Cathy BlunkArt Imitating Life Imitating Art? Representations of the Pas d'armes in Burgundian Prose Romance: The Case of Jehan d'Avennes - Rosalind Brown-GrantThe Foot Combat as Tournament Event: Equipment, Space and Forms - Iason-Eleftherios TzouriadisPower and Pageantry: The Tournament at the Court of Maximilian I - Natalie AndersonThe Field of Cloth of Gold: Arms, Armour and the Sporting Prowess of King Henry VIII and King Francis I - Karen Watts

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