The 'knight in shining armour' has become a staple figure in popular culture, and images of bloody battlefields, bustling feasting halls and courtly tournaments

Describes the job requirements, training, physical demands, compensation, and daily life of a knight in the Middle Ages.

A magisterial history of the origins, reality, and legend of the knight “A carefully researched, concise, readable, and entertaining account of an institution

The Middle Ages, with its crude reality and mystery, often enveloped in an air of religious and occasionally even mythical or fantastic mysticism, has always be

Instructions, diagrams for 22 large (approximately 4½" tall) figures, including images of Charles V, Dauphin of France (1356); Edward, the Black Prince (1356);