Stuart W. Pyhrr

An exhibition catalogue dealing largely with disarticulated elements of horse armours, the focus here is mostly on the pieces as objets d'art rather than their military function (if any - some of the pieces featured were purely ceremonial), so of greater art-historical interest than military-historical.

This book was pretty much what I expected it to be. Having read "The Art of Chivalry", a sort of catalouge of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of arms and armour, I was had a good idea of what would be the general format of this book. It picks up where "Chivalry" left off, providing photos and a general description of some of the pieces the museum has aquired over the last 2 decades. Altogether an OK source but more of an annex to the first book.