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The Archaeology of Weapons: Arms and Armour from Prehistory to the Age of Chivalry
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Tremendously detailed and thorough account of premodern weapons of war -- from the prehistoric Bronze and Iron Ages and the breakup of the Roman Empire, to the Viking era and the Age of Chivalry.
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A Knight and His Weapons
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Ewart Oakeshott (Illustrator), R Ewart Oakeshott
Take an engaging journey back in time, when battles were fought with swords, lances, maces, and an array of well-crafted devices that could be elegant and ornate, brutal and efficient, or both. This accessible, lively, and informative book explores many facets of the medieval world of weaponry. Did you know, for instance, that in the fifteenth ...
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A Knight and His Castle
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Traces the design, building, and defense of castles throughout medieval Europe, and describes the daily life of a knight.
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A knight and his horse
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Describes the horses used by knights in the Middle Ages, as well as the equipment and weapons they used in battle.
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The Archaeology of Weapons: Arms and Armor From Prehistory to the Age of Chivalry
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The Romans
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Alfred Duggan
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The Archaeology of Weapons: Arms and Armour from Prehistory to the Age of Chivalry
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Ewart Oakeshott (Illustrator)
In "The Archaeology of Weapons", Ewart Oakeshott traces the development of European arms in logical sequence, showing how changes were wrought by the use of new materials and the ever-shifting demands of war and fashion. This history begins nearly two hundred years before the Christian era, covering among other subjects the charioteers of the Near ...
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A Knight and His Armor
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Ewart Oakeshott (Illustrator), R Ewart Oakeshott
Now back in print and in paperback, this is another in the famous Knight series by the renowned medieval historian Ewart Oakeshott. Explore another fascinating dimension of medieval warfare in this engaging account of knights and their various kinds of armor. Oakeshott focuses on the armor of the later Middle Ages, from 1100 to 1500, He examines ...
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A Knight in Battle
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Ewart Oakeshott, R Eward Oakeshott
Recounts four medieval battles of different tactical styles and discusses the changes in weapons and armor between 1100 and 1500.
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Dark age warrior
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Describes the weapons and armor used by soldiers during the four-hundred-year period of invasions, wars, migrations, and unrest in Europe that followed the break-up of the stable patterns of the Roman Empire.
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The Sword in the Age of Chivalry
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Ewart Oakeshott
The resplendent image of the medieval knight is symbolised by his sword, a lethal weapon on the battlefield and a badge of chivalry in that complex social code. Ewart Oakeshott draws on his extensive research to recount the history of the sword from the knightly successors of the Viking weapon to the emergence of the Renaissance sword - roughly ...
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European weapons and armour : from the Renaissance to the industrial revolution
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Records of the Medieval Sword
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Ewart Oakeshott
An extensive and thorough study of the origins, development and usage of the glamorous two-edged knightly sword of the European middle ages, with a complete typology. Spanning the period from the great migrations to the Renaissance, this book presents a selection from a very large body of photographs and research and gives a full and detailed ...
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A knight in battle
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The sword in the age of chivalry
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The resplendent image of the medieval knight is concentrated in the symbolism of his sword. The straight, two-edged, cross-hilted knightly sword of the European Middle Ages was an object of vital importance, a lethal weapon on the battlefield and a badge of chivalry in that complex social code. Ewart Oakeshott draws on his extensive research and ...
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The blindfold game; the day at Jutland
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A knight and his weapons
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European Weapons and Armour: From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution
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Ewart Oakeshott, R Ewart Oakeshott
Both a work of scholarship, and a treasury of information, for anyone seeking a factual and vivid account of the story of arms from the Renaissance period to the Industrial Revolution. 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 ...
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Records of the Medieval Sword
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A study of the two-edged knightly sword of the European middle ages. The book is based around photographs of swords accompanied by the authors comments on the historical significance or special stylistic features of the pieces. The author's other books include " The Sword in the Age of Chivalry", and "The Archaeology of Weapons".
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A Knight and His Horse
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Swords of the Viking Age
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Ian Peirce, Ewart Oakeshott (Introduction by)
This new work fills a vacuum in English language studies of the swords made and used in northern Europe during the Viking Age, from the mid-eighth through to the mid-eleventh century. Given the mission of seeking out the best representative examples of the broad diversity of sword types surviving from this time, Ian Peirce, lecturer and museum ...
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Tales of King Robert the Bruce
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Tom Scott, Ewart Oakeshott
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A knight and his castle
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Ewart Oakeshott
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Arms and armour
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Boswell Taylor, Ewart Oakeshott, Donald Green
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The archaeology of weapons : arms and armour from pre-history to the age of chivalry.
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