Bloodied Banners: martial display on the medieval battlefield. By Robert W Jones. 240mm. Pp xi+205, 14 figs and 10 col ills. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2010. ISBN 9781843835615. £50 (hbk).

摘要

This well-researched and referenced work coversnall aspects of knightly display on the battlefield,nfrom the eleventh to the fifteenth century. WhilenEngland is the central focus, the net is castnwidely across Europe and the many examplesncited by this study come not just from thenchronicles and other sources typically used fornbattle study, but also from romance and epicnliterature, which is used to reveal how, in theirnown period, such symbols were understood.