Charles Phillips

Illustrated History of Knights and the Golden Age of Chivalry

A Magnificent Account of the Medieval Knight and the Chivalric Code, with Over 450 Images of Their Quests, Battles, Tournaments, Triumphs, Courts and Castles

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Medieval knights, their origins, status, training, military exploits and adventures, sumptuously illustrated throughout.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anness Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 292mm x 228mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1350g
• ISBN-13: 9780754835318
• ISBN-10: 0754835316
• Artikelnr.: 60895486

Autorenporträt

Charles Phillips is an established writer of popular history, a contributor to Cassell's Dictionary of Modern Britain as well as to the Chronicle of Britain and several illustrated histories. He has a keen interest in the mythology and history of the great Maya and Aztec civilizations and was a key writer on Time Life's Myth and Mankind series. Charles is a graduate of Oxford University, he holds an MA from the University of Westminster and is a member of the Society of Authors. David M. Jones, consultant, studied Anthropology and History at the University of California, Berkeley, and obtained a PhD in the Archaeology of the Americas at the Institute of Archaeology, University of London. He also earned a BSc in Earth Sciences at the Open University in 2000. David is the author of The Inca Empire: An Illustrated History and co-author of The Mythology of the Americas. Dr Jones is also the co-author of the Blue Guide Mexico and has written many articles on Mesoamerican and South American art for The Grove Dictionary of Art.