The Armourer and His Craft
As soon as the armed man realized that iron and steel were the best defences for his body, he would naturally insist that some sort of a guarantee should be given him of the efficacy of the goods supplied by his armourer. This system of proving armour would be effected by using those weapons commonly in use, and these, in the early times, were the sword, the axe, the lance, the bow, and the crossbow. The latter seems to have been the more common forms of proof, though as late as the seventeenth century we have evidence that armour was proved with the estramaçon or sword blow. -from The Proof of Armour Not a h…
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- ISBN: 978-1-60520-412-3
- EAN: 9781605204123
- Produktnummer: 19379382
- Verlag: Cosimo Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 260 S.
- Masse: H26.0 cm x B18.3 cm x D1.8 cm 692 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 692
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