Service of Ladies: An Autobiography

172pp. Translated into modern English by J W Thomas. In laminated card covers (very slightly bumped along part of the leading edge). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Liechtenstein's extraordinary account of his adventures as a knight-errant is one of the most vivid images of chivalric life to have come down to us from the Middle Ages. Written originally in the mid-13th century, he tells of his 'journey of Venus', undertaken to win his lady's favour, in which he claimed to have broken three hundred and seven spears in jousts against all comers in the space of a month.