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Tournaments, Medieval

Here are entered works on medieval contests or martial sports in which two groups of mounted and armored combatants fought for a prize with blunted weapons and in accordance with certain rules, as well as works on modern re-creations of these events.

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• Civilization, Medieval

• Tournaments, Medieval -- Austria
• Tournaments, Medieval -- Belgium
• Tournaments, Medieval -- Early works to 1800
• Tournaments, Medieval -- England
• Tournaments, Medieval -- France
• Tournaments, Medieval -- Germany
• Tournaments, Medieval -- Great Britain
• Tournaments, Medieval -- History
• Tournaments, Medieval -- Italy
• Tournaments, Medieval -- Juvenile poetry
• Tournaments, Medieval -- Scotland
• Tournaments, Medieval -- Sweden
• Tournaments, Medieval -- Vatican City
• Tournaments, Medieval in literature

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• King René's Tournament Book (English translation and original French of Traictié de la Forme et Devis d'ung Tournoy, 15th century), by King of Naples and Jerusalem René I, ed. by Elizabeth Bennett (illustrated HTML at Princeton)
• Traité des tournois, joustes, carrousels, et autres spectacles publics ([Éditions Horvath], 1975), by Claude-François Menestrier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Libro del passo honroso defendido por el Excelente Cauallero Suero de Quiñones. (De Vinne Press, 1902), by Pedro Rodríguez de Lena, Suero de Quiñones, and Juan de Pineda (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le pas d'armes de la bergère, maintenu au tournoi de Tarascon (Impr. de Crapelet, 1835), by Louis de Beauvau and G. A. Crapelet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The tournament; its periods and phases (Methuen & Co., ltd., 1919), by R. Coltman Clephan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• OEuvres choisies du roi René (E. Picard, 1849), by King of Naples and Jerusalem René I, Paulin Paris, Pierre Hawke, Théodore de Quatrebarbes, Ordre du Croissant, and Bibliothèque nationale (France) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Torneos, mascaradas y fiestas reales en la Nueva Espańa. (México, 1918), by Manuel Romero de Terreros (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Traité des tournois, joustes, carrousels et autres spectacles publics (AMS Press, 1978), by Claude-François Menestrier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analogues of Chaucer's Canterbury pilgrimage (April 1386) and his putting-up joust-scaffolds, etc., in West-Smithfield (May 1390) being the expenses of the Aragonese ambassadors for 58 days in England, 21 July to 16 Sept. 1415, including their 4-days' journey from London to Canterbury and back, 31 July-3 Aug. 1415, and the cost of erecting scaffolds, etc., in West-Smithfield for the joust between Don Philip Boyl, knight, of Aragon, and John Asteley, esq., on Jan. 30, 1442, with Henry VI.'s allowances of materials for the said joust. (Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Limited, 1906), by Frederick James Furnivall and R. E. G. Kirk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analogues of Chaucer's Canterbury pilgrimage (April 1386) and his putting-up joust scaffolds, etc., in West-Smithfield (May 1390) being the expenses of the Aragonese ambassadors for 58 days in England, 21 July to 16 Sept. 1415, including their 4-days' journey from London to Canterbury and back, 31 July-3 Aug. 1415, and the cost of erecting scaffolds, etc., in West-Smithfield for the joust between Don Philip Boyl, knight, of Aragon, and John Asteley, esq., on Jan. 30, 1442, with Henry VI's allowances of materials for the said joust. (Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Limited, 1903), by Frederick James Furnivall and R. E. G. Kirk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité des tournois, joustes, carrousels et autres spectacles publics (Editions Horvath, 1978), by Claude-François Menestrier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La giostra di Lorenzo de' Medici, messa in rima da Luigi Pulci (Zanichelli, 1899), by Cesare Carocci (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chivalry and the Eglinton tournament (H. Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1839), by James Aikman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tilting in Tudor times; a souvenir of the royal naval and military tournament, Olympia, London, 1906. (Gale, 1906), by Henry Augustus Dillon-Lee Dillon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abhandlung von den Thurnieren, besonders denen deutschen. (Bey W.G. Korn, 1772), by Georg Dietrich von der Groeben (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ursprung, Ausbildung, Abnahme und Verfall des Turniers : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Ritterwesen im Mittelalter (L. Grund, 1836), by Peter Alcantara Budik (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibliotheca equestris : dessen 1. Theil hält in sich ex consortio equestri C. Lerchium ... [et al.], equites ordinis equestri immediati, ex ministerio equestri J.C. Kreidermannum ... [et al.] : 2. Theil hält in sich das alte Thurnier-Buch ... (Gedruckt und zu finden bey Joh. Gassenmeyer Buchdrucker, 1720), by Johann Stephan Burgermeister (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der turnierroman "Livre des faits du bon chevalier Messire Jacques de Lalaing" in der Anholter handschrift, nebst einem exkurs über den verfasser. (Aschendorff, 1915), by Paul Rudnitzki and Germany. Fürstl. Salm-Salm'sches archiv Anholt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oeuvres complètes du roi René (Impr. de Cosnier et Lachèse, 1844), by King of Naples and Jerusalem René I, Alexis Chevalier, Paulin Paris, Pierre Hawke, Théodore Quatrebarbes, Ordre du Croissant, and Bibliothèque nationale (France) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le tournoi de Chauvency (Dequesne-Masquillier & fils, 1898), by Jacques Bretex and Gaëtan Marie Joseph Antoine Hecq (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der Fünfkampf der Hellenen ([s.n.], 1888), by Friedrich Fedde (page images at HathiTrust)
• La montagna circea : torneamento nel passaggio della sereniss. duchessa donna Margherita Aldobrandina, sposa del sereniss. Ranuccio Farnese, duca di Parma e Piacenza : festeggiato in Bologna à xxvij. giugno 1600. (Presso gli heredi di Giouanni Rossi, 1600), by Melchiorre Zoppio and Heredi di Giovanni Rossi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amore prigioniero in Delo : torneo fatto da' signori Academici torbidi in Bologna li XX. di marzo M. DC. XXVIII. ([Per gli heredi di Vittorio Benacci], 1628), by Giacinto Lodi, Giovanni Battista Coriolano, and Academici dei Torbidi in Bologna (page images at HathiTrust)
• Torneo de' signori cavalieri bolognesi (per Giouanni Rossi, 1578), by Antenor Garisendi and Pompeo Vizani (page images at HathiTrust)
• Festa, fatta in Roma, alli 25. di Febraio MDCXXXIV. (E data in luce da Vitale Mascardi, 1635), by Guido Bentivoglio, François Collignon, Andrea Sacchi, and Vitale Mascardi (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the tournament in England and in France. (B. Quaritch, 1918), by Francis Henry Cripps-Day (page images at HathiTrust)
• Torneos, jineta, rieptos y desafíos : apuntes reunidos (Librería de Fernando Fé, 1904), by Enrique de Leguina (page images at HathiTrust)
• Combat a la barriere : faict en cour de Lorraine ... (Par Sebastien Philippe, imprimeur de Son Altesse, 1627), by H. H. (Henry Humbert) and Jacques Callot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Eglinton tovrnament : dedicated to the Earl of Eglinton, Friday Avgvst 30th, 1839. (Hodgson & Graves, 1840), by Edward Henry Corbould (page images at HathiTrust)
• Della Cavalleria ([G. E. v. Löhneyss], 1609), by Georg Engelhard von Löhneyss (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sieg-Streit dess Lufft und Wassers (Bey Mattheu Cosmerovio, der Röm. Kayserl. Majest. Hoff-Buchdrucker, 1667), by Francesco Sbarra, Carlo Pasetti, Gerard Bouttats, Franciscus van der Steen, Jan van Ossenbeeck, Nicolas de Hoey, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Alessandro Carducci, and Antonio Bertali (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thurnier Buch, warhafftiger ritterlicher Thaten (Durch Raphael Hofhalter, auff Polnisch Skrzetusky genandt ..., 1561), by Hans von Francolin, Hans Sebald Lautensack, and Donat Hübschmann (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dialogo della giostra fatta in Trivigi l'anno MDXCVII (Appresso Euangelista Dehuchino, 1598), by Giovanni dalla Torre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Torneo di Bonaventvra Pistofilo nobile ferrarese (Per il Ferrone, 1627), by Bonaventura Pistofilo, Giovanni Battista Coriolano, and Italy) Teatro di Pallade (Bologna (page images at HathiTrust)
• The booke of honor and armes. (Printed [by T. Orwin for] Richard Ihones ..., 1590), by George Peele, Vincentio Saviolo, William Segar, and Richard Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dell'arte di scrimia libri tre (Appresso Giulio Tamborino, 1572), by Giovanni dall' Agocchie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pandectae triumphales, sive, Pomparum et festorum ac solennium apparatuum .. (Impens. Sigismundi Feyrabendij, 1586), by François Modius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trattati del cavalier Bartolomeo Sereno : dell'vso della lancia a cauallo : del combattere a piede alla sbarra : et dell'imprese, et inuentioni caualieresche. (Per Gio. Battista Gargano & Lucretio Nucci, 1610), by Bartolomeo Sereno and Cesare Alberini (page images at HathiTrust)
• The booke of honor and armes (At London : Printed by [Thomas Orwin for] Richard Ihones, dwelling at the signe of the Rose and Crowne neere Hoburne Conduit, 1590), by Richard Jones, William Segar, and Vincentio Saviolo (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Honor military, and ciuill contained in foure bookes. Viz. 1. Iustice, and iurisdiction military. 2. Knighthood in generall, and particular. 3. Combats for life, and triumph. 4. Precedencie of great estates, and others. (Imprinted at London : By Robert Barker, printer to the Queenes most Excellent Maiestie, Anno Dom. 1602), by William Segar and William Rogers (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The history of the tournament. (AMS Press, 1982), by Francis Henry Cripps-Day (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Eglinton tovrnament : dedicated to the Earl of Eglinton, Friday Avgvst 30th, 1839. (Hodgson & Graves, 1840), by Edward Henry Corbould (page images at HathiTrust)

• The history of the tournament. (AMS Press, 1982), by Francis Henry Cripps-Day (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les tournois de chauvenci : donnés vers la fin du treizième siècle (A. Prignet, 1835), by Jacques Bretex, A. Prignet, Philibert Delmotte, and Henri-Florent Delmotte (page images at HathiTrust)

• Giostra corsa in Torino addì xxi di febbraio M DCCC XXXIX nel passaggio di Sua Altezza Imperiale e Reale Alessandro, granduca principe imperiale ereditario di Russia. (Tip. Chirio e Mina, 1839), by Luigi Cibrario, Pietro Ayres, Camilla Gandolfi, Francesco Gonin, and Lit. F.lli Doyen e C. (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tournament—Its Periods and Phases, by R. Coltman Clephan, contrib. by Charles John Ffoulkes (Gutenberg ebook)

• Queen Summer: or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose, by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Queen Summer, or, The tourney of the lily & the rose (London et al.: Cassell & Co. Ld, 1891), by Walter Crane (page images at Florida)

• Chivalry and the Eglinton tournament (H. Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1839), by James Aikman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nozze Altemps-Penna, II febbraio M.D.CCC.XCVIII (Unione cooperativa editrice, 1898), by Antonfrancesco Cirni, Etienne Du Pérac, Antoine Lafréry, Alessandro Betocchi, and Edwin Binney 3rd Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Three Days' Tournament: A Study in Romance and Folk-Lore: Being an Appendix to the Author's 'Legend of Sir Lancelot', by Jessie L. Weston (Gutenberg ebook)

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