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Sword in the Age of Chivalry
Edition: Paperback Other editions available: Hardcover, Paperback, Paperback, Hardcover, Paperback, Hardcover 1 third-party copy available from: $30.00 
Other items of interest: • Records of the Medieval Sword • The Archaeology of Weapons: Arms and Armour from Prehistory to the Age of Chivalry (Dover Military History, Weapons, Armor) • A Knight and His Weapons • European Weapons and Armour: From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution • Swords of the Viking Age • Sword Fighting: An Introduction to handling a Long Sword • The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England • Sigmund Ringeck's Knightly Art of the Longsword • The Art of Sword Combat: A 1568 German Treatise on Swordmanship • Schools and Masters of Fencing: From the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century (Dover Military History, Weapons, Armor)  Product Description: 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 and refines a detailed typology of swords which takes in entire swords, pommel-forms, cross-guards, and the grip and scabbard. Extensive reference to specific weapons is accompanied on the page by line illustrations and a further 48 pages of photographs illustrate over a hundred splendid weapons or parts of weapons, accompanied by detailed captions. Product Details/Specifications: Authors: Ewart Oakeshott Recording label: Lutterworth Press Publishers: Lutterworth Press Manufacturer: Lutterworth Press EAN: 9780718809003 Binding: Paperback ISBN: 0718809009 Number of pages: 152 Publication date: 1965-02-01 Format: Import, Language: English (Published) Language: English (Original Language) Language: English (Unknown) |
