“Illuminates the evolution of knighthood” — New York Times Book Review
“A carefully researched, concise, readable, and entertaining account of an institution that remains a part of the Western imagination.” — Los Angeles Times
“Splendid … This detailed look, focusing as it often does on individual men, shows the knight in a new and more interesting light, whether Roland or Galahad.” — Washington Post
“Gies’s writing is fresh and direct, her scholarship is exact, and she approaches her subject with excitement.” — The New Yorker