Arms and Armour in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Also a Descriptive Notice of Modern Weapons
- Author(s): Charles Boutell and Paul Lacombe
- Category: Militaria & Weapons
- Publisher: Reeves & Turner
- Publish year: 1907
- ISBN: 9678000004048
- Number of Pages: 380
This edition of M. Lacombe's work, as translated, edited, and expanded by our great English authority, Charles Boutell, has been enriched by the addition of very numerous and interesting illustrations from various sources ; and the publishers desire to express their thanks to Lord Zouche, Sir Noel Paton, and Mr. Percy Macquoid for permission to reproduce pieces from their collections that had been given in the two Portfolio monographs on "Armour in England," by Mr. Starkie Gardner, the electros being furnished by Messrs. Seeley & Company Limited.
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Copyright
CONTENTS.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
LIST OF PLATES
PUBLISHERS' NOTE.
PREFACE.
CHAPTER I. THE STONE PERIOD. -ANTEDILUVIAN AND PRE-HISTORIC WEAPONS.
CHAPTER II. THE BRONZE PERIOD. - ARMS AND ARMOUR OF THE ASSYRIANS; OF THE GAULS; AND OF THE GREEKS OF THE HEROIC AGES.
CHAPTER III. THE IRON PERIOD. - ARMS AND ARMOUR OP THE GREEK OF THE HISTORIC AGES; AND THOSE OF THE PERSIANS AND THEIR ALLIES IN THE GRECO-PERSIAN WAR.- ALSO THE BRONZE ARMS AND ARMOUR OF THE ETRUSCANS.
CHAPTER IV. THE ARMS AND ARMOUR OF THE ROMANS.
CHAPTER V. THE DECORATION OF ANCIENT ARMS AND ARMOUR
CHAPTER VI. DEFENSIVE EQUIPMENT AND WEAPONS OF SAVAGE BACKS. ARMOUR AND ARMS OF THE FRANKS.
CHAPTER VII. ARMS AND ARMOUR OF THE MIDDLE AGES. - PART I.
CHAPTER VIII. ARMS AND ARMOUR OF THE MIDDLE AGES. - PART II.
CHAPTER IX. ARMS AND ARMOUR DURING THE TRANSITION PERIOD OF THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES.
CHAPTER X. ARMS AND ARMOUR IN ENGLAND
CHAPTER XI. MODERN ARMS. PART I. - ARTILLERY.
APPENDIX.
NOTES