N I G H T B R I N G E R . S E
CONTENT - KNIGHTHOOD AND CHIVALRY

INTRODUCTION
  • The perpetual Knight errant
  • Short about Knights
  • Swords
  • The Tournament
  • Armour as the Mirror of Luxury

    KNIGHTHOOD AND CHIVALRY
  • St. George and the Dragon

    TWO CHIVALRIC IDEAS - EXEMPLAR AND INSPIRATION
  • The Challenge
  • Heralds and Heraldry
  • Fair Maidens and Noble Ladies
  • The Emperor Maximilian I - The Last of the Chevaliers

    THE FORMS, EQUIPMENT AND TECHNIQUE OF THE TOURNAMENT
  • Tournament Courses
  • The Field of Cloth and Gold
  • Tournaments of the Saxon Electors
  • The Technique of Chivalric Combat
  • Horse Equipment
  • Boys' Armour
  • The Renaissance revival of ancient armour
  • Costume Armour and Helmets With Grotesque Visors
  • Archduke Ferdinand of the Tyrole
  • "Rennen" and "Stechen"
  • Pageants in the Reigns of Gustavus Adolphus and Christina
  • Carl Gustaf Wrangel's surviving carousel equipment

    HASTILUDES IN DENMARK
  • Danish Carousels
  • The Equestrian King
  • Horsemanship and the Nobleman's Education
  • The Parisian Carousel of 1662
  • Certamen Equestre
  • The Dresden Carousel of 1709
  • Ladies' Carousels
  • The Carousel in Berlin 1750

    THE GUSTAVIAN HASTILUDES
  • Gustav III
  • Tournaments and Hastiludes
  • The Knight's Equipment
  • Gustav III's "Total Theatre"
  • Freemansony and Hastiludes
  • Gustav IV Adolf

    EPILOGUE
  • The Eglinton Tournament in 1839

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