Arms and Armour - 8 eBooks On CD

Arms and Armour
You are bidding on 8 electronic ebooks, created from scanned of out of print publications.

1. Armour In England  was written in 1897 by J. Starkie Gardner, and is 117 pages in length. "The appearance ot the mail-clad warrior opens up an entirely new era in the history of European armour. The light plate defences worn by the Mediterranean nations, whether Greeks, Etruscans, or Romans, were never calculated to secure immunity from wounds ; and as a fighting equipment they went down before mail, as stone before bronze, or bronze before iron. Chain-mail body-armour is distinctly represented on the Trajan column, and wherever worn, whether by the Scythian, the Parthian who was armoured down to his horse's hoofs, or the dreaded Sassanian horse, it seems to have flashed like a beacon of victory, and its wearers ever appear in history as Rome's most dreaded and formidable foes."

2. The Armourer and His Craft: From The XIth to the XVIth Century by Charles Foulkes, written in 1912 is over 280 pages in length. "I do not propose, in this work, to consider the history or development of defensive armour, for this has been more or less fully discussed in works which deal with the subject from the historical side of the question. I have rather endeavoured to compile a work which will, in some measure, fill up a gap in the subject, by collecting all the records and references, especially in English documents, which relate to the actual making of armour and the regulations which controlled the Armourer and his Craft."

3. Handbook Of The Collection Of Arms and Armor,  by Bashford Dean in 1925, 300 pages. "During the greatest period of the European armorers, say between 1450 and 1530, even a detached piece a shoulder, backplate, gauntlet, or greave had in some degree the merit of a fragment of classical sculpture. Not merely are its lines expressed beautifully, but one feels that it has within it something living."

4. British and Foreign Arms and Armour, written in 1909 by Charles Henry Ashdown and is 470 pages in length. "The study of Arms and Armour is one of absorbing interest to a large and ever increasing number of the community, inasmuch as it appeals in a marked degree to the student of history, the antiquarian, and to those who work in the realms of art. To the first it appeals as a concrete reminder of the struggles of nations for liberty, independence, power, or conquest ; to the second it breathes of the age in which it saw the light with all the feeling and tone which characterised it ; to the third it is a source of delight by the consummate beauty of its form or the exquisite details of its adornment."

5. Foreign Armour In England was written in 18989 by Strakie Gardner and is 100 pages in length. "A former monograph, Armour in England, treated of weapons and armour made either in this country or connected historically with English wearers. The more extensive field of foreign armour brought into England by wealthy and enthusiastic collectors is now embraced."

6. Helmets And Body Armor In Mordern Warfare,  by Bashford Dean was written in 1920 and is 330 pages in length. "The present book aims to consider the virtues and failings of helmets and body armor in modern warfare. To this end it brings together materials collected from all accessible sources; it shows the kinds of armor which each nation has been using in the Great War, what practical tests they will resist, of what materials they are made, and what they have done in saving life and limb."

7. An Illustrated History Of Arms And Armour,  by Auguste Demmin was written in 1911 and is 600 pages in length. "The flamberg, or Swiss flame-sword, must not be mistaken for the flame-sword intended to be used with both hands, which was a weapon in use in the sixteenth century. The two-handed sword (Zweihander), or real espadon, is no earlier than the fifteenth century. It was the ordinary weapon of the foot-soldier in Switzerland ; in Germany its use was confined mainly to the defence of besieged towns."

8. The Anglo-Saxon Weapon Names Treated Archaeologically and Etymologically,  by May Lansfield Keller was written in 1906 and is 280 pages in length. "In making public the following investigation of the weapon names in Anglo-Saxon, attention should be called to the fact that, owing to the frequent use of general terms, such as waepen, searu etc., applied to equipment and armour, and to that of the word sweord referring to sword, it has been deemed advisable not to include all references to the same, such only having been selected as are of interest either from an etymological or archaeological standpoint."

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