With Ring of Shield

A first-person knightly memoir traces a martial life amid a dynastic crisis, moving from tournaments and courtly entertainments to pitched battles and sieges. The narrator describes the taking of Berwick, tournament feats, duels, and a ball at the castle, then becomes entangled in palace intrigue as power shifts, suffering arrest, sanctuary, and imprisonment in the Tower. Political plots and changing loyalties culminate in the climactic engagement at Bosworth. Vivid descriptions of combat, chivalric ritual, and personal reflection explore loyalty, honor, ambition, and the human cost of armed struggle.