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Title:Chivalry & the Perfect Prince : Tournaments, Art, & Armor at the Spanish Habsburg Court
Series:(Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies, 81)
Author:Braden K Frieder
ISBN:193111269X : 9781931112697
Illustrations:illus
Format:Hardback
Size:180x255mm
Pages:300
Weight: .678 Kg.
Published:Truman State University Press - January 2008
List Price: 36.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Spain: c1700-c1800: European history (not UK & Eire)


This is a survey of the ceremonial armour crafted for the Spanish Habsburg monarchs of the sixteenth century. It examines notable tournaments and pageantry held at the courts of Charles V and Philip II, and the artworks associated with them. Braden Frieder guides the reader through these tournaments, jousting, and other knightly exercises as part of a larger aristocratic culture that included arms and armour, paintings, tapestries, medals, and sculptures with chivalric themes. Frieder presents Habsburg tournaments in their proper historical context as an extension of imperial politics, drawing comparisons with popular chivalric literature of the period. Frieder’s study utilises extensive primary source material and contemporary documents, many appearing for the first time in English.