xii, 220pp plus a central section of black and white plate illustrations. In black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine (boards gently rounded at spine ends, small mild mark on front). Pages slightly creamy, else internally neat, clean and tight. In its original shelf worn dust jacket with minor bumping at spine ends. A collection of thirteen essays examining the court culture of medieval England - was, for instance, Richard II really a great patron of the arts, as so often held, or was the influence of court on culture more diffuse? Leading medievalists adduce a rich body of material from the 14th and 15th centuries to debate and discuss education, patronage, crusades, Architecture, literature and music etc. 8vo.
