I am unwinding on the last evening of the Kalamazoo conference and having a first look at Noel Fallows' new book on jousting in Iberia. This might be the most substantial treatment of jousting ever written -- based as it is on a plethora of texts that have been ignored by just about everyone as too difficult to interpret. And Fallows includes the texts and translations!
And I'm pleased to see that Fallows has not just seen my work but found it useful. Moments like this only come along occasionally for most of us scholars.
Note: The HOT weather here has turned COLD.
Is this work only aimed at high level scholars or will those of us that are hobbiest scholars and active jousting apt to find it of value?
ReplyDeleteI can't say yet from my own reading but Fallows says he hopes the book will of use to present day jousters. Certainly I think some jousters are going to want to read the manuals and accounts and look at the many picture, mainly of equipment. I will review the book when I have finished it.
ReplyDeleteJousters interested in History. That will be a first!
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But.....come to think of it.....it would be really nice!
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