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Book European Swords and Daggers in the Tower of London

Download or read book European Swords and Daggers in the Tower of London written by Arthur Richard Dufty and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries

Download or read book A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries written by Guy Laking and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memories of War in Early Modern England

Download or read book Memories of War in Early Modern England written by Susan Harlan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines literary depictions of the construction and destruction of the armored male body in combat in relation to early modern English understandings of the past. Bringing together the fields of material culture and militarism, Susan Harlan argues that the notion of “spoiling” – or the sanctioned theft of the arms and armor of the vanquished in battle – provides a way of thinking about England’s relationship to its violent cultural inheritance. She demonstrates how writers reconstituted the spoils of antiquity and the Middle Ages in an imagined military struggle between male bodies. An analysis of scenes of arming and disarming across texts by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare and tributes to Sir Philip Sidney reveals a pervasive militant nostalgia: a cultural fascination with moribund models and technologies of war. Readers will not only gain a better understanding of humanism but also a new way of thinking about violence and cultural production in Renaissance England.

Book British Basket hilted Swords

Download or read book British Basket hilted Swords written by Cyril Mazansky and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descriptive catalogue with typology of a British sword-type with a 500-year history.

Book A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries

Download or read book A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries written by Sir Guy Francis Laking and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopedia of Military Technology and Innovation

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Military Technology and Innovation written by Stephen Bull and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-06-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Abrams M1 tank to the zeppelin, this essential reference details the invention and evolution of nearly 600 of the most important advances in military technology from prehistory to the present. International in scope, it covers weapons, ammunition, defenses, land vehicles, aircraft, ships, detection, stealth, gear, supplies, weapons of mass destruction, and much more. Whether researching such cutting-edge technologies as the B-2 Stealth Bomber, Patriot Missile, and the Roborat project or such historical topics as forts, Molotov cocktails, or the U-2, Encyclopedia of Military Technology and Innovation is a must-have reference. Warfare and national defense have provided a strong stimulus for technological advances throughout history. This reference provides students and researchers from high school through college, scholars, and the general public essential information, historical perspective, and scientific context to understand better the development, capabilities, and uses of major military technologies. Fifty illustrations, helpful cross-references, a bibliography, and an index help users navigate this reference and supplement their research.

Book British Books in Print

Download or read book British Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The European Magazine and London Review  by the Philological Society of London

Download or read book The European Magazine and London Review by the Philological Society of London written by and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Critical Inquiry Into Antient Armour  as it Existed in Europe  Particularly in Great Britain  from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II

Download or read book A Critical Inquiry Into Antient Armour as it Existed in Europe Particularly in Great Britain from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II written by Samuel Rush Meyrick and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book THE EUROPEAN MAGAZINE  AND London Review

Download or read book THE EUROPEAN MAGAZINE AND London Review written by Philological Society (Velká Británie) and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bookseller

Download or read book The Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gleason s Pictorial Drawing room Companion

Download or read book Gleason s Pictorial Drawing room Companion written by Maturia Murray Ballou and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Whitaker s Cumulative Book List

Download or read book Whitaker s Cumulative Book List written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Compleat History of Europe

Download or read book A Compleat History of Europe written by David Jones and published by . This book was released on 1711 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Times Literary Supplement Index

Download or read book The Times Literary Supplement Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book European Weapons and Armour

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.

Book Gleason s Pictorial Drawing room Companion

Download or read book Gleason s Pictorial Drawing room Companion written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: