For everybody accessible now! In order to make the data used in our book, website and virtual exhibition more accessible to both scholars and the general public, we have created an online database. It contains most of the details of all pas d’armes held between c.1420 and c.1520 (e.g. exact dates and locations, names of entrepreneurs and challengers, composition of teams, type of combat, theatrical scenario, ephemeral architecture, guests and spectators, etc.). The database can be searched by Events, i.e. all pas d’armes as they are normally called in the sources or secondary literature; Participants, i.e. all people involved in the pas d’armes as combatants,  judges, spectators, guests, etc.; Locations, i.e. all towns, villages, castles and other places where the events took place; and Sources, i.e. all archival, manuscript and published sources which we used to create the database.

The book cover is ready! We cannot wait to see it in print...

On 30 November 2023, we submitted our book, entitled Pas d’armes and Late Medieval Chivalry: A Casebook, to Liverpool University Press for publication in their Liverpool Historical Casebooks series. The volume, which consists of translations of seventeen original sources and seven essays, has two main aims: firstly, to provide greater access to many of the narrative, financial and pictorial sources relating to such events; and secondly, to demonstrate how these sources can be used to develop scholarly debates about the pas d’armes in new directions. A map and a complete table of all pas d'armes held between c.1420 and c.1520 are also provided, as well as a glossary defining key terms relating to weapons, armour and clothing used in both the sources and the essays. The book will be published in Open Access in the course of 2024.