The Archaeology of Weapons Arms and Armour from Prehistory to the Age of Chivalry

by Oakeshott, R. Ewart

• ISBN13: 9780486292885
• ISBN10: 0486292886
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-10-18
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

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. Profusely illustrated with a host of armor and weapons: daggers, longbows, crossbows, helmets, swords, shields, spears and more.

Table of Contents

Preface to 1994 Reprint	p. 3
Errata	p. 7
Introduction	p. 13
The Prehistoric Period
"The Pitiless Bronze"	p. 21
Iron Comes to the Europe: The Hallstatt People	p. 37
The Gauls	p. 51
The Heroic Age
The Great Migrations	p. 69
Rome in Decline: The Gothic Cavalry	p. 83
The Bog-Deposits of Denmark	p. 89
The Arms of the Migration Period	p. 107
The Vikings
Swords in the Viking Period	p. 131
The Vikings at War	p. 150
From Charlemagne to the Normans	p. 164
The Age of Chivalry
The "Gay Science" of Chivalry	p. 181
Sword Types and Blade Inscriptions, 1100-1325	p. 200
Sword Hilts and Fittings	p. 224
The Sword in Wear	p. 239
"The Complete Arming of a Man", 1100-1325	p. 253
Armour and the Longbow in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries	p. 282
Swords and Daggers in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries	p. 301
Appendix: Four Date-Charts	p. 341
Bibliography	p. 351
Index	p. 353
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