Tower Armoury in the Fourteenth Century

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

The documents surviving from the privy wardrobe, the department which administrated the Tower armoury under Edward III, Richard II and Henry IV, provide a unique insight into the use of arms and armour in late medieval England. Thom Richardson expertly brings these documents to life, showing how the previously peripatetic armoury became established in the Tower of London at the outbreak of the Hundred Years War, and grew into the national arsenal which today forms the basis of the Royal Armouries, the national museum of arms and armour.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-09-16
Mått:156 x 234 x 24 mm
Vikt:760 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Trustees of the Royal Armouries
ISBN:9780948092756

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Thom Richardson FSA is former Deputy Master, now Curator Emeritus, at the Royal Armouries. He holds a PhD from the University of York and is the former editor of both the Journal of the Arms and Armour Society and Arms & Armour. He has authored numerous books and articles on armour and related subjects.

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Based on a remarkable series of financial records, painstakingly analysed by one of the world's leading experts on arms and armour, this book is a brilliant assessment of how the English crown prepared for and responded to the demands of warfare. Dr Richardson does his predecessors as keepers of the Tower armouries proud: his conclusions will transform our understanding of the 'English way of war'.