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The Sword in the Age of Chivalry
Author(s): Oakeshott, Ewart
| Binding: | Softcover |
| Volume Condition: | Very Good |
| Dust Jacket: | No |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher Name: | Boydell Press |
| Publication Year: | 1998 |
| Publication Place: | London, UK |
| Book ID: | 009902 |
| Catalogue(s): | History - British ◇ War, Military History and Weapons |
158pp, illustrated with line drawings by the author. In laminated card covers (gentle edge wear, one corner lightly bumped). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. The image of the medieval knight is concentrated in the symbolism of his sword. Ewart Oakeshott develops a typology for and recounts his history of the sword, from the knightly successors to the Viking weapon to the emergence of the Renaissance sword.
Keywords:
Medieval warfare
weapons
swords
Knights