Author Description

"For the student and general reader alike... Offers texts on feudal society. Chapter topics include: the 'three orders'; the first and second feudal ages; the king; the royal court; feudalism in Spain; Richard II of England, 1377-1399; chivalry; jousting, hunting, and the duel; relations between the sexes; the household; knights and archers; sieges; Henry V in France, 1415-1422; the new warfare; the victims of war; and the peacemakers... Sources... include chronicles and histories, legal documents, treatises, household and manorial accounts, letters, poetry, and romances."--Back cover.