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Oakeshott, Ewart, The Sword in the Age of Chivalry, new ed. with new preface and appendix containing corrections to earlier ed., Woodbridge (Suffolk), The Boydell Press, 1994, 146 pp. + [24] ff. de làm.
- Resum
- The resplendent image of the medieval knight is concentrated in the symbolism of his sword. The straight, two-edged, cross-hilted knightly sword of the European Middle Ages was an object of vital importance, a lethal weapon on the battlefield and a badge of chivalry in that complex social code. Ewart Oakeshott draws on his extensive research and expert eye (and hand, for he has a special sense for the feel of a sword) to develop a typology for and recount the history of the sword, from the knightly successors of the Viking weapon to the emergence of the Renaissance sword - that is, roughly from 1050 to 1550. Within this time-span, two distinct groups of swords successively evolved. Problems of dating are acute, and evidence is adduced from literature and art as well as from archaeology, for a sword (or some parts of a sword) could have been in use several generations after it first saw battle. To deal with such overlap, Ewart Oakeshott develops and refines a detailed typology of swords which takes in entire swords, pommel-forms, cross-guards, and the grip and scabbard. Extensive reference to specific weapons is accompanied on the page by line illustrations and a further 48 pages of photographs illustrate over a hundred splendid weapons or parts of weapons, accompanied by detailed captions. -- The late Ewart Oakeshott was an authority on the arms and armour of medieval Europe. His other books include Records of the Medieval Sword and The Archaeology of Weapons.
Contents:
* Swords of group I (1050-1350)
* Swords of group II (1350-1550)
* Pommel- forms
* Cross-guards
* Grip and scabbard
* Appendix: inscriptions on blades
- Matèries
- Tècniques - Metall
Art militar
Cavalleria
Guerra
Història de l'art
Il·lustracions
- Notes
- 1a ed.: Londres, Lutterworth, 1964; 2a ed.: Londres, Arms and Armour, 1981.
Reimpr.: 1998.
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