
Arms and Armour of the Renaissance Joust
Tobias Capwell(Author)
Trustees of the Royal Armouries (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 1. June 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-0-948092-99-2 (ISBN)
Description
The Renaissance is best known as an age of artists - Michelangelo, da Vinci, Titian and Holbein - but it is also the age of the noble patrons who challenged their painters and sculptors to create great art. These patrons were knights, military leaders and jousters. They played a central role in the story of another great Renaissance story, that of the armourer.
Here, Tobias Capwell continues his history of jousting seen through surviving artefacts in the collection of the Royal Armouries. He reveals how the jousts and tournaments of the Renaissance transported knightly combat into a kind of performance art, with demonstrations of aristocratic skill and nerve, of superhuman strength and superlative horsemanship - and of cutting-edge equipment.
Here, Tobias Capwell continues his history of jousting seen through surviving artefacts in the collection of the Royal Armouries. He reveals how the jousts and tournaments of the Renaissance transported knightly combat into a kind of performance art, with demonstrations of aristocratic skill and nerve, of superhuman strength and superlative horsemanship - and of cutting-edge equipment.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leeds
United Kingdom
Illustrations
120 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
300 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-948092-99-2 (9780948092992)
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Person
Tobias Capwell FSA is Curator of Arms and Armour at the Wallace Collection, London. He is an expert on the study of medieval and Renaissance armour, and a skilled competitor in the modern competitive jousting community.