Un texto inâedito sobre la caballerâia del Renacimento espaänol

Presenting the original text published in Medina del Campo in 1548, this is an edition, in Spanish, of "La Doctrina del Arte de la Caualleria", which was the first theoretical manual on horse soldiery in Spain.

The text is accompanied by an extensive introduction, appendices and a bibliography.The work's theme is the straightforward practice of cavalry, leaving aside questions of philosophical, ethical or moral rigour.

Quixada de Reayos emphasizes above all the importance of understanding weapons and horses in order to be able to avoid disasters on the field of battle and in lists - the two most risky situations in the chivalric world of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.