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This attractively produced and moderately priced Festschrift is not the first that has been offered to Christopher Brooke. The first was offered him by Cambridge. The present tribute comes from his former roost in London, a decade later, but no less respectful. The eight contributors are well chosen and in most cases have interesting gifts to lay before their honorand. William Purkis and Virginia Davis précis earlier book-length investigations, of crusading as an entry into regular life through vowed pilgrimage, and of the early career of William of Wykeham, that most single-mindedly professional of pluralists, role model to Wykehamists across the ages. Giles Constable surveys the re-discovery of medieval religion as a topic deemed fit for historical enquiry, no longer locked away in a subsection of political or economic history: a process in which Christopher Brooke has played no small part. Paul Binski, writing with the same swift elegance that he attributes to Brooke himself, makes an eloquent plea for architectural historians to escape from either narrow specialism or vogueish nonsense, and to survey the broader picture rather than merely cataloguing the individual details. In the process, he reveals that it was a desire to placate the sponsor, Lloyds Bank and its once prancing (now one suspects stabled and supine) black horse, that led to the naming of the great 1987 exhibition ‘The Age of Chivalry’.
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