Sydney Anglo is Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Wales, and was Chairman of the Society for Renaissance Studies 1986-89. His publications includeThe Great Tournament Roll of Westminster; (Clarendon Press, 1968), and Spectacle, Pageantry, and Early Tudor Policy (Oxford-Warburg Studies 1969, new edition 1997), and The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe (Yale, 2000 - see sales figures). He is a leading authority in the field of Renaissance studies.