Armour and Weapons – serie
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22 produkter
Pietro Monte's Collectanea
The Arms, Armour and Fighting Techniques of a Fifteenth-Century Soldier
Inbunden, 2018
1400 kr
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First translation into English of a wide-ranging military treatise from the late middle ages.Pietro Monte's Collectanea is a wide-ranging treatise on the arts of knighthood, focusing on martial arts, athletics, arms and armour, and military practice, but touching on subjects as diverse as diet, …
Medieval Arms and Armour: A Sourcebook. Volume II: 1400–1450
Häftad, 2026
389 kr
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Authoritative reference guide, using the documents in which arms and armour first appeared to explain and define them. Medieval arms and armour are intrinsically fascinating. From the smoke and noise of the armourer's forge to the bloody violence of the battlefield or the silken panoply of the …
Sword
Form and Thought
Av Lisa, Deutscher, Lisa Deutscher m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
844 kr
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A multidisciplinary overview of current research into the enduringly fascinating martial artefact which is the sword.The sword is the most iconic of all weapons. Throughout history, it has connected various, sometimes conflicting, dimensions of human culture: physical combat and representation of …
Medieval Military Engineer
From the Roman Empire to the Sixteenth Century
Av Peter Purton
Inbunden, 2018
1731 kr
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Sheds light on the skills and techniques of the medieval military engineer, over a thousand year sweep.The results of medieval engineering still surround us - cathedrals, castles, stone bridges, irrigation systems. However, the siege artillery, siege towers, temporary bridges, earthwork …
Medieval Arms and Armour: A Sourcebook. Volume III: 1450-1500
Av Ralph Moffat
Häftad, 2026
389 kr
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Authoritative reference guide, using the documents in which arms and armour first appeared to explain and define them.Medieval arms and armour are intrinsically fascinating. From the smoke and noise of the armourer's forge to the bloody violence of the battlefield or the silken panoply of the …
`The Furie of the Ordnance'
Artillery in the English Civil Wars
Av Stephen Bull
Inbunden, 2008
382 kr
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Shows how new developments in guns and artillery played a decisive role in the English Civil War.NEW LOW PRICEThe English Civil War has frequently been depicted as a struggle between Cavaliers and Roundheads in which technology played little part. The first-hand sources now tell us that this …
Cultural History of the Medieval Sword
Power, Piety and Play
Inbunden, 2023
385 kr
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The sword is an important and multi-faceted symbol of military power, royal and communal authority, religion and mysticism. This study takes the sword beyond its functional role as a tool for killing, considering it as a cultural artefact, and the broader meaning and significance it had to its …
Jousting in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia
Av Noel Fallows
Häftad, 2024
737 kr
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Copiously illustrated edition with translation of seminal texts on the joust in medieval Iberia.WINNER: UNIVERISTY OF GEORGIA CREATIVE RESEARCH MEDAL 2012WINNER: 2012 LA CORÓNICA INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDJousting was for some 500 years the major spectator sport in western Europe. And yet, despite …
The Art of Swordsmanship by Hans Lecküchner
Inbunden, 2015
1731 kr
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English translation of one of the most significant medieval texts on fighting with swords.Completed in 1482, Johannes Lecküchner's Art of Combat with the "Langes Messer" (Messerfechtkunst) is among the most important documents on the combat arts of the Middle Ages. The Messer was a single-edged, …
The Book of Horsemanship by Duarte I of Portugal
Inbunden, 2016
460 kr
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First full translation of an important treatise on chivalric horsemanship.Written around 1430, Duarte of Portugal's remarkable treatise on chivalric horsemanship, the Livro do Cavalgar (Book on Riding), is the sole substantial contemporary source to survive on the definitive physical skill of …
The Art of Swordsmanship by Hans Lecküchner
Häftad, 2018
500 kr
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English translation of one of the most significant medieval texts on fighting with swords.Completed in 1482, Johannes Lecküchner's Art of Combat with the "Langes Messer" (Messerfechtkunst) is among the most important documents on the combat arts of the Middle Ages. The Messer was a single-edged, …
Royal and Urban Gunpowder Weapons in Late Medieval England
Av Dan Spencer
Inbunden, 2019
1346 kr
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First comprehensive study of English artillery in the late Middle Ages, bringing out its full impact on areas beyond the military.One of the most important technological developments of the Middle Ages was the adoption of gunpowder weapons in medieval Europe. From the fourteenth century onwards, …
Medieval Arms and Armour: a Sourcebook. Volume I
The Fourteenth Century
Inbunden, 2022
1333 kr
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Authoritative reference guide, using the documents in which arms and armour first appeared to explain and define them."A substantial and impressive piece of scholarship, one that will serve scholars and enthusiasts of medieval arms and armour very well indeed". Dr Robert W. Jones, Franklin and …
Thun-Hohenstein Album
Cultures of Remembrance in a Paper Armory
Inbunden, 2023
1731 kr
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The first extensive study of the depiction of the armour in the Thun-Hohenstein Album against the vibrant artistic and cultural contexts that created it.In late medieval and early modern Europe, armour was more than a defensive technology for war or knightly sport. Its diverse types formed a …
The Book of Horsemanship by Duarte I of Portugal
Häftad, 2023
365 kr
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First full translation of an important treatise on chivalric horsemanship.Written around 1430, Duarte of Portugal's remarkable treatise on chivalric horsemanship, the Livro do Cavalgar (Book on Riding), is the sole substantial contemporary source to survive on the definitive physical skill of …
Medieval Arms and Armour: A Sourcebook. Volume II: 1400–1450
Inbunden, 2024
1148 kr
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Authoritative reference guide, using the documents in which arms and armour first appeared to explain and define them. Medieval arms and armour are intrinsically fascinating. From the smoke and noise of the armourer's forge to the bloody violence of the battlefield or the silken panoply of the …
Medieval Arms and Armour: A Sourcebook. Volume III: 1450-1500
Av Ralph Moffat
Inbunden, 2024
959 kr
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Authoritative reference guide, using the documents in which arms and armour first appeared to explain and define them.Medieval arms and armour are intrinsically fascinating. From the smoke and noise of the armourer's forge to the bloody violence of the battlefield or the silken panoply of the …
Medieval Arms and Armour: a Sourcebook. Volume I
The Fourteenth Century
Av Ralph Moffat
Häftad, 2025
538 kr
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Authoritative reference guide, using the documents in which arms and armour first appeared to explain and define them."A substantial and impressive piece of scholarship, one that will serve scholars and enthusiasts of medieval arms and armour very well indeed". Dr Robert W. Jones, Franklin and …
Thun-Hohenstein Album
Cultures of Remembrance in a Paper Armory
Häftad, 2026
450 kr
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The first extensive study of the depiction of the armour in the Thun-Hohenstein Album against the vibrant artistic and cultural contexts that created it.In late medieval and early modern Europe, armour was more than a defensive technology for war or knightly sport. Its diverse types formed a …
Urban Martial Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Av Daniel Jaquet, Regula Schmid Keeling
Inbunden, 2027
1333 kr
Kommande
Sword
Form and Thought
Av Lisa Deutscher, Mirjam Kaiser m. fl.
Häftad, 2027
389 kr
Kommande
A multidisciplinary overview of current research into the enduringly fascinating martial artefact which is the sword.The sword is the most iconic of all weapons. Throughout history, it has connected various, sometimes conflicting, dimensions of human culture: physical combat and representation of …
Artillery of the Dukes of Burgundy, 1363-1477
Av Robert Douglas Smith, Kelly DeVries
Inbunden, 2005
1731 kr
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A major new exploration of the history and development of gunpowder weapons in the 15th century based on the artillery of the Dukes of Burgundy.The four Valois Dukes of Burgundy created, in little more than a century, a fabulously wealthy and independent state. Their centralised control and …
