Christopher Gravett Books

Eyewitness Guides are a series of illustrated information books which integrate photographs with explanatory illustrations, maps, charts and text. This book looks at knights, their armour, battles, chivalry, jousting, heraldry, hawking and crusades.

The Battle of Hastings changed the course of English history. Featuring a visitor's guide to the battlefield today, this edition contains new views of the battlefield and gives information on the best-known figures of British heritage. schovat popis

This attractively packaged gift book offers a comprehensive overview of the development of the fearsome medieval English knight from the 12th to the 15th century. The “knight in shining armor” has become a staple figure in popular culture and the images of bloody battlefields, bustling feasting halls, and courtly tournaments have been creatively interpreted many times in film and fiction. But what was the medieval knight truly like? In this fascinating title, former Senior Curator at the Royal Armories Christopher Gravett describes how knights evolved over three centuries of English and European history, the wars they fought, their lives both in peacetime and on campaign, the weapons they fought with, the armor and clothing they wore, and their fascinating code and mythology of chivalry. The text is richly illustrated with images ranging from manuscript illustrations to modern artwork reconstructions and many photographs of historic artifacts and sites.

This book on castles transports readers back to the world of medieval fortifications to meet the people who built them and lived inside them. Readers explore the first earth-and-timber castles, take part in a siege, watch the community of lords and ladies, jesters, pages going about their daily lives - even peek into the Great Hall and deep down into the dungeons.

Throughout the 11th and 12th centuries the Norman knight was possibly the most feared warrior in Western Europe. He was descended originally from the Vikings who had settled in Northern France under their leader Rollo in or around 911 at the behest of Charles the Simple and throughout the following centuries they remembered and built on their warlike reputation. This book shows how their military prowess was renowned throughout the known world and resulted in Normans conquering Sicily in 1060 and England in 1066, as well as participating in many important battles in Italy and playing a major part in the First Crusade.

Der Bild-/Textband zeigt - nach Ländern geordnet - eine breite Auswahl unterschiedlichster Burgentypen in Europa und ihre Funktionen und behandelt historische und geographische Fragen (Warum wurden an diesem Ort zu dieser Zeit solche Burgen gebaut?)

Hier wird die Welt des Mittelalters für Kinder lebendig und erfahrbar: Die hervorragend illustrierte, spannende Darstellung der mittelalterlichen Kriegsführung wird ergänzt durch authentische Zitate und Illustrationen aus mittelalterlichen Schriften. Mit Zeittafel, Glossar und Tipps zum Weiterlesen.