the Archaelogy of the Weapons - Arms and Armour from Prehistory to the Age of Chivalry

R. Ewart Oakeshott

Dover Publications

1996

350 páginas

11h 40m

ISBN-10: 0486292886

Premodern weapons of war receive a tremendously detailed and thorough accounting in this volume - the work of a noted authority on medieval arms in Europe. Covering a period of 30 centuries, the study, like a richly woven tapestry, vividly describes the development of arms and armor - beginning with the weapons of the prehistoric Bronze and Iron ages, through the breakup of the Roman Empire and the great folk-migrations fo the period; the age of the Vikings; and finally, the Age of Chivalry.

Relying on evidence of arms found in bogs, tombs, rivers, excavations and other sites, as well as on contemporary art and literature, the author describes in detail an awesome array of the weapons and accountrements of war: swords, shields, spears, helmets, daggers, longbows, crossbows, axes, chain mail, plate armor, gauntlets and much else.