Knights / Hopkins, Andrea

Summary: The complete story of the age of chivalry from historical fact to tales of romance and poetry.

Provides an account of the lives and activities of knights based on an examination of documents they wrote themselves, and compares those first-person accounts with the writings of poets and chroniclers of the time.

Examines the way in which writers and chroniclers of the times portrayed knighthood, contrasting this with the way real-life knights lived.