The Tournaments at Le Hem and Chauvency
Sarrasin: The Romance of Le Hem; Jacques Bretel: The Tournament at Chauvency
The Romance of Le Hem and The Tournament at Chauvency are eyewitness accounts of the famous tournaments held in 1278 at Le Hem on the banks of the Somme in north-eastern France, and in 1285 at Chauvency in Lorraine. Written within weeks of the events they describe, they record in vivid detail not only the jousts and the mêlées but also the entertainments and dramatic interludes which preceded, followed and embellished these festivals of martial sport. As Sarrasin makes clear, theatre as well as jousting, and jousting in the context of enacted stories, were central to what took place at Le Hem, involving elaborate role-play by participants a…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78744-993-0
- EAN: 9781787449930
- Produktnummer: 35435378
- Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'823 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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