RICHARD COEUR DE LION. Kingship, Chivalry and War in the Twelfth Century.

First edition. Hardcover. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and tight, clean and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. The top edge of the closed text block is a little spotted. Complete with the mildly spine faded dustwrapper that is otherwise bright and without loss or tears.

A collection of essays on kingship and war in twelfth and thirteenth century Europe focusing on the reigns of the first three Plantagenet kings, and in particular Richard I.