An illustrated introduction to knights describing their duties, training, armor, weapons, methods of warfare, and place in medieval society.
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Gr 3-5--With large-print texts and numerous captioned illustrations, each entry in this series attempts to cover a topic completely yet simply. Knights presents information on a knight's training, duties, and arsenal of weapons along with medieval warfare and marriage. Medieval Town covers commerce, warfare, aspects of daily life, and concludes with the Black Death. Writing presents the history of alphabets, writing, printing, and computers. Unfortunately, the material is too far-reaching for a such a simplistic presentation and leads to oversimplifications. To say that "religious ceremonies played an important part in town life" (Medieval Town) does not begin to impart the role of the Catholic Church in medieval life. The illustrations are too crowded and often too small to be informative and do not allow readers to distinguish details. Good information on these subjects can be obtained more effectively in many other titles.
Susan Pine, New York Public Library
Copyright 1997 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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Entertaining and interesting!,
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This review is from: Knights and Armor/Worldwise (Paperback)
A good overview of the life of a knight. Who knew it took knights so long to get dressed in their armor, or that they wore so many layers? Large print, easy vocabulary and colorful illustrations for grades 3-5.
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nice pictures,
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I bought this book as a gift for a friend who likes knights. It is a nice little book and has some fun pictures in it :)
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