Название: The Archaeology of Weapons: Arms and Armour from Prehistory to the Age of Chivalry
Автор: R. Ewart Oakeshott
Издательство: Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486292886
Год: 1996
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 400
Для сайта: LitMy
Размер: 20,7 МБ
Язык: Английский
Premodern weapons of war receive a tremendously detailed and thorough accounting in this volume — the work of a noted authority on medieval arms in Europe. Covering a period of 30 centuries, the study, like a richly woven tapestry, vividly describes the development of arms and armor — beginning with the weapons of the prehistoric Bronze and Iron Ages, through the breakup of the Roman Empire and the great folk-migrations of the period; the age of the Vikings; and finally, the Age of Chivalry.
Relying on evidence of arms found in bogs, tombs, rivers, excavations, and other sites as well as on contemporary art and literature, the author describes in detail an awesome array of the weapons and accoutrements of war: swords, shields, spears, helmets, daggers, longbows, crossbows, axes, chain mail, plate armor, gauntlets, and much else.