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Medieval Jousts and Tournaments (Dover History Coloring Book)

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Description

This entertaining and educational coloring book invites you to re-create the colorful pageantry, excitement, and spirited action of medieval jousts and tournaments. Artist John Green has captured many thrilling moments of these demanding and continuously dangerous contests in realistic, in a position-to-color illustrations.
Over 40 detailed drawings, with accompanying captions, depict the whole thing from the preparation of tournament horses to the mêlée, a mock battle through which two teams of horsemen met on an open field. Also portrayed are a knight challenging an opponent, a dying knight receiving last rites from a priest, a lavish tournament banquet, ladies of the court choosing a knight-of-honor, Henry VIII meeting Francis I of France (1520) at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, and lots of more exciting moments.
This treasury of well-researched drawings will appeal to coloring book fans of every age in addition to somebody interested by knights, weapons and armor, and other aspects of medieval life.
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