Part of a series for lower secondary history programmes, this textbook traces the fortunes of the mounted knight from the introduction of the saddle and stirrup in the 10th century to the advent of the long-distance bowman and gunner in the 15th.
Haydn Middleton was born in Reading and studied History at Oxford, where he now lives. He has worked in advertising and publishing, lectured in British myth and legend, and written a dozen works of fiction and non-fiction.