Author: Arthur Richard DuftyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armor
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
European Armour in the Tower of London
Author: Arthur Richard DuftyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armor
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
European armour in the Tower of London. [By] Arthur Richard Dufty. [With an introduction by William Reid.]
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Author: Great Britain. Ministry of Public Building and WorksPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
EUROPEAN ARMOR IN THE TOWER OF LONDON.
Author: A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries
Author: Sir Guy Francis LakingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armor
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries
Author: Guy LakingA Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries
Author: Sir Guy Francis LakingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armor
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Arms & Armour in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen
Author: Alexander Vesey Bethune NormanPublisher: Royal Collection
ISBN: 9781905686483
Category : Armor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Volume 1: European Armour is the first catalog to offer a comprehensive inventory of this substantial and historically significant collection in more than one hundred years. Among the highlights of the collection are imposing sets of Greenwich armor created in the sixteenth century for Henry VIII and Sir Christopher Hatton; an exceptionally beautiful set of armor created in the early seventeenth century for Henry, Prince of Wales; and an ornate field garniture belonging to Julius, Duke of Brunswick, a fine example of armor in the continental style. In addition to fresh research, the book features more than five hundred new photographs that provide clear front, back, and side views, as well as close-ups of ornamentation, maker's marks, and other features for the most important pieces. The book also includes full resources for further study, including two essays giving a broad overview of the history of the collection; specially commissioned reconstruction drawings of important Greenwich garnitures, including lost pieces; a glossary of important terms; and an index, appendix, and bibliography.
European Weapons and Armour
Author: Ewart OakeshottPublisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 184383720X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The story of arms in Western Europe from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution. A treasury of information based on solid scholarship, anyone seeking a factual and vivid account of the story of arms from the Renaissance period to the Industrial Revolution will welcome this book. The author chooses as his starting-point the invasion of Italy by France in 1494, which sowed the dragon's teeth of all the successive European wars; the French invasion was to accelerate the trend towards new armaments and new methods of warfare. The authordescribes the development of the handgun and the pike, the use and style of staff-weapons, mace and axe and war-hammer, dagger and dirk and bayonet. He shows how armour attained its full Renaissance splendour and then suffered itssorry and inevitable decline, culminating in the Industrial Revolution, with its far-reaching effects on military armaments. Above all, he follows the long history of the sword, queen of weapons, to the late eighteenth century, when it finally ceased to form a part of a gentleman's every-day wear. Lavishly illustrated. EWART OAKESHOTT was one of the world's leading authorities on the arms and armour of medieval Europe. His other works on the subject include Records of the Medieval Sword and The Sword in the Age of Chivalry.
A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries
Author: Sir Guy Francis LakingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armor
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The Tower Armoury in the Fourteenth Century
Author: Thom RichardsonPublisher: Royal Armouries
ISBN: 9780948092756
Category : Armor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"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 England as the Hundred Years War unfolded. Here, Thom Richardson expertly brings these documents to life. He answers many long-standing questions and challenges a number of assumptions, notably about the use of the longbow and the wearing of armour during that formative period of English history. Richardson shows 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."--Publisher's description.