Jousting for Peace
Thomas Penn: Henry VIII meets Francis I, 17 July 2014
The Field of Cloth of Gold
by Glenn Richardson.
Yale, 288 pp., £35, November 2013,978 0 300 14886 2 Show More
by Glenn Richardson.
Yale, 288 pp., £35, November 2013,
“... in the Anglo-French borderlands south of Calais, into an apotheosis of conspicuous consumption. As Glenn Richardson notes in his minutely detailed book, relatively abundant surviving sources – documenting everything from the designs for the sprawling tent complexes to the provisioning of food and drink for 12,000 guests (particular attention was paid to ... ”