Archaeology Of Weapons

Author : R. Ewart Oakeshott
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486292885
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Weapons written by R. Ewart Oakeshott and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British arthority on medieval weapons surveys European arms and armor from the Bronze Age to the time of triumph of gunpowder.

Author : R. Ewart Oakeshott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781566195966
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Weapons written by R. Ewart Oakeshott and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R. Ewart Oakeshott
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 132 pages
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Download or read book A Knight and His Weapons written by R. Ewart Oakeshott and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 century "fight books" with drawings guided knights in the proper use of weapons? That the average medieval warrior became a full-fledged fighter by the time he was fifteen years old? Or that armor made by a master could, by modern standards, cost the price of a Rolls Royce?

Author : Ewart Oakeshott
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 184383720X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Weapons and Armour written by Ewart Oakeshott and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Rivka Gonen
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9780304293384
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weapons of the Ancient World written by Rivka Gonen and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1975 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter den Hertog
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1526772396
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Did Hitler Hate the Jews? written by Peter den Hertog and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This investigation into the Nazi leader’s mindset is “an inherently fascinating study . . . a work of meticulously presented and seminal scholarship”(Midwest Book Review). Adolf Hitler’s virulent anti-Semitism is often attributed to external cultural and environmental factors. But as historian Peter den Hertog notes in this book, most of Hitler’s contemporaries experienced the same culture and environment and didn’t turn into rabid Jew-haters, let alone perpetrators of genocide. In this study, the author investigates what we do know about the roots of the German leader’s anti-Semitism. He also takes the significant step of mapping out what we do not know in detail, opening pathways to further research. Focusing not only on history but on psychology, forensic psychiatry, and related fields, he reveals how Hitler was a man with highly paranoid traits, and clarifies the causes behind this paranoia while explaining its connection to his anti-Semitism. The author also explores, and answers, whether the Führer gave one specific instruction ordering the elimination of Europe’s Jews, and, if so, when this took place. Peter den Hertog is able to provide an all-encompassing explanation for Hitler’s anti-Semitism by combining insights from many different disciplines—and makes clearer how Hitler’s own particular brand of anti-Semitism could lead the way to the Holocaust.

Author : Ewart Oakeshott
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9780851157153
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sword in the Age of Chivalry written by Ewart Oakeshott and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 expert eye (and hand, for he has a special sense for the feel of a sword) to develop a typology for and recount the history of the sword, from the knightly successors of the Viking weapon to the emergence of the Renaissance sword - that is, roughly from 1050 to 1550. Within this time-span, two distinct groups of swords successively evolved. Problems of dating are acute, and evidence is adduced from literature and art as well as from archaeology, for a sword (or some parts of a sword) could have been in use several generations after it first saw battle. To deal with such overlap, Ewart Oakeshott develops, refines and illustrates a detailed typology of swords which takes in entire swords, pommel-forms, cross-guards, and the grip and scabbard.

Author : Raphael Hermann
Publisher : BAR International
ISBN 13 : 9781407355719
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bronze Age Combat written by Raphael Hermann and published by BAR International. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using original experimental methodologies and the best replica weapons to hand, five researchers set out to unlock Bronze Age combat. Their results of the first truly detailed and systematically described combat experiments with replica Late Bronze Age swords, spears and shields are presented in this book.

Author : Ana M. S. Bettencourt
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789254914
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weapons and Tools in Rock Art written by Ana M. S. Bettencourt and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2021-03-03 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weapons and tools are frequently found depicted in rock art in many parts of the globe and different periods and in varying social contexts. This collection of papers by leading rock art specialists examines the subjective and metaphorical value of weapons and tools in art, the actions that created them, and their contexts. It also takes into account that such representations incorporate and transmit some kind of understanding about the world and the relationship between objects and humans. Contributors analyse objects and weapons as status symbols, as evidences of cultural contacts, as ideological devices, etc. Divided into regional sections which, for once, do not focus on Scandinavia, chapters deal with the representations of weapons and certain kinds of tools (such as axes and sickles) in different prehistoric, protohistoric and traditional community contexts all over the world. Attention focuses on rock art, but also looks at stelae and statue-menhirs, as well as other kinds of ‘container’ or vehicle for this kind of depiction. The major concern is to discuss the possible meanings of these embodied signs in different areas and periods, since meanings are permeable both to time and space. Papers either centre their attention in broader approaches based on a specific area, region or people, or focus on particular case studies.

Author : Colin F. Taylor
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806137162
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native American Weapons written by Colin F. Taylor and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2005-07-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring 155 color photographs and illustrations, Native American Weapons surveys weapons made and used by American Indians north of present-day Mexico from prehistoric times to the late nineteenth century, when European weapons were in common use. Colin F. Taylor describes the weapons and their roles in tribal culture, economy and political systems. He categorizes the weapons according to their function - from striking, cutting and piercing weapons, to those with defensive and even symbolic properties - and he documents the ingenuity of the people who crafted them.