The Rusted Hauberk (Hardback)
Feudal Ideas of Order and their Decline
Imprint: University of Florida Press
Pages: 338
Illustrations: 14 b/w figs
ISBN: 9780813012810
Published: 31st December 1997
Casemate UK Academic
Pages: 338
Illustrations: 14 b/w figs
ISBN: 9780813012810
Published: 31st December 1997
Casemate UK Academic
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Using the hauberk as a metaphor, the book discusses the vast gap between the ideal of feudalism and the reality of its practice. The hauberk, just like the knights, castles and protection it symbolised were all subject to decay and rust.