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| Medieval Arms and Armor: A Pictorial Archive (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
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Edition: Dover Ed
Author: J. H. von Hefner-Alteneck
Publisher: Dover Publications
Release Date: 2004-12-23
ISBN-10: 048643740X
ISBN-13: 9780486437408
List Price: $14.95
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This handsome archive depicts richly detailed armor and weaponry dating from the early ninth century to the mid-1700s. Adapted from decorative ornamentation on burial monuments and manuscripts, hundreds of finely executed images depict authentic shields, swords, crossbows, helmets, and ornate suits of body armor for knights and their steeds. 100 black-and-white plates.
A good buy
| Customer Rating:  | | It is full of detailed drawings of armor and weapons so in case you wish to know what something looks like without having to search all over the place for it, this book is worth it. It does not have a large amount of text explaining the weapons and armor though. |
Medieval Arms and Armor: A Pictorial Archive
| Customer Rating: | | I bought this for my 10 year old grandson for Christmas. He is really interested in medieval history. He was so excited that he kept going back to this book between opening other presents. |
Beautifully Done Drawings
| Customer Rating: | Reproducedfrom a book originally published in Germany in 1903, this book contains more than a hundred pages of drawings of weapons, and particularily of armor from about 780 to the mid 1600's. The descriptions that go along with the illustrations are very well done and describe points that should be noted about the illustrations. These have been taken from the original German and specially translated for this edition.
Covering such a long period of time, the development of styles of armor and the details of construction. I found the discussion on points like gauntlets, elbow protectors and the like to be more complete than anywhere else I've seen. They are based on drawings of the earliest equipment, burial monuments, and from the fifteenth century through the Thirty Years War on extant examples of plate armor.
Very well done. |
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