The Gauntlet

Ronald Welch

Oxford University Press, 1999 - Adventure and adventurers - 208 pages

When Peter finds the gauntlet on a Welsh hillside, he becomes the latest link in an old legend. Suddenly transported back to the fourteenth century, to a world of castles, feasts, jousts, and battles, he is accepted by everyone as the eldest son of Sir Roger de Blois. Peter learns how to live as the son of a Norman lord, how to hawk, and fight, and shoot a longbow, and, finally he has to escape alone from their besieged castle to bring help. But one day he will have to return to his own time ...

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User Review  - PollyMoore3 - LibraryThing

I remember reading this aged about 10, though all that had stayed with me was Peter's scary climb down the castle wall. It's basically a boys' adventure story written by an ex-soldier who clearly ...

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User Review  - john257hopper - LibraryThing

This is a Medieval historical novel published in 1951 and, I realised once I started it, aimed at intelligent children rather than adult readers. A teenage boy (how earnest and sober-minded such ...

Contents

• Peter Finds the Gauntlet: 1
• Carreg Cennen Castle: 12
• BrassRubbing: 21
• The Gauntlet Again: 26
• Roger de Blois: 33
• A Medieval Dinner: 44
• A Medieval Manor: 59
• The Longbow: 68
• Falconry: 80
• The Education of a Page: 94
• The Abbey of Valle Crucis: 104
• Sir William de Chaworth: 116
• Kidwelly Castle: 126
• The Joust at Kidwelly Castle: 138
• The Siege of Carreg Cennen Castle: 149
• Down the Precipice: 161
• Peter Returns: 175
• Peter Finds his Proof: 186

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Gauntlet; Oxford children's modern classics
• Author: Ronald Welch
• Illustrated by: T. R. Freeman
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1999
• ISBN: 0192717626, 9780192717627
• Length: 208 pages