Description
9″ x 6″, 245 pages, + appendix, bibliography and index, illustrated with b+w photographs, 1st published 1963, Contents Part one The Background, Part two, The Event appendix 1 some 18th and 19th century tournaments, appendix 2 Facsimile of the official programme, bibliography, index, What was The Eglinton Tournament and why was it so important? To say it was the dying, nostalgic protest of an aristocracy infatuated with the myths of chivalry and medieval ceremony is to oversimplify.
