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RAYMOND RUDORFF AND THE AGE OF CHIVALRY A Studio Book The Viking Press New York FC BR YA CRA513 .R82 Thisbookwasdevisedandproducedby ParkandRocheEstablishment, Schaan Copyright < 1974byRaymondRudorfF All rightsreserved Publishedin 1974byTheVikingPress, Inc. 625 MadisonAvenue,NewYork,N.Y.10022 DesignedbyCrispinFisher PictureresearchbyJulietBrightmore SBN 670-41460-3 LibraryofCongresscatalogcardnumber: 74-6997 Printedin ItalybyAmilcarePizzi S.A.,Milano Jacket: Niccold Mauruzi da Tolentino captains the Florentines against the Sieneseat the BattleofSanRomanoin 1432:paintingbyPaolo Uccello. Endpaper: Fourteenth-centuryknightsinbattle:fromLesLivresdesEstoires douCommencementdou Monde. Title-page: Effigyofa thirteenth-centuryknightin FurnessAbbey. Facingpreface: A kingandhisknightsoutsideatown:woodcutfromL'Arbre desBataillesbyHonoreBona, 1493. 3 Contents Listofcolourplates 6 Preface 9 1 TheNewWarriors 1 2 The Swordand theCross 47 3 KnightsandChivalry 77 4 TheGreatOrders 117 5 The'Perfect,Gentle Knight' 152 6 The Knights in Decline 183 Shortbibliography 234 Index 236 Acknowledgments 240 5 1 List of colour plates Alateeleventh-centurywarrior 33 Mounted warriors and footsoldiers attacka castle undera hail ofarrows 34 AmountedVikingknightcarriesakite-shapedshield 34 Akingandhiscrusaderswaitintheirtentsoutsideabesiegedcity 5 Infantrypitchcampwhilecrusadingknightsrideintobattle 52 ArabsinbattleagainstChristianscarryinganimageofthe VirginandChild 61 StGeorgeandtheDragon paintingby Uccello 62 : Hand-to-handfightingattheBattleofCourtrai 64 Scenesoflifeinsideabesiegedcity 81 ThesiegeofDamietta 82 Hissquiresarmaknightforbattle 91 ThesageWolframpreachestolerancetoayoungknight 92 ThearrestoftheTemplars 125 JacquesMolay,Grand MasteroftheTemplars,and the PreceptorofNormandy,areburnedalive 125 Battleandencampmentoutsidecitywallsafteralongsiege 126 TheTurksattackRhodes,whichisdefendedbytheKnightsof theOrderofStJohn 135 The InnofProvence inthe StreetofKnights,Rhodes 136 James I ofAragonfightstheMoorsatPuigdeCebolla 161 6

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