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Author:   Lisa Deutscher ,  Mirjam Kaiser (Author) ,  Sixt Wetzler ,  Andrea Dolfini
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   The Boydell Press
Volume:   v. 9
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9781783274277

ISBN 10:   1783274271
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   15 November 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Foreword Preface ""What is the Riddle of Steel?"": Problems of Classification and Terminology in the Study of Late Medieval Swords - Iason-Eleftherios Tzouriadis Challenging Typologies: Swords in the Utrecht Psalter - Stefan Maeder ""...schirmen mit Federklingen"": Towards a Terminology of Fencing Swords (1400-1600) - Daniel Jaquet Phosphoric Iron and Welded Patterns: The Reconstruction of an Early Medieval Sword from Beckum - Ulrich Lehmann Phosphoric Iron and Welded Patterns: The Reconstruction of an Early Medieval Sword from Beckum - Stefan Roth Phosphoric Iron and Welded Patterns: The Reconstruction of an Early Medieval Sword from Beckum - Claus Lipka Material and Properties of VLFBERHT Swords - Ingo Petri A Sword from the Rhine: Restoration, Examination and Classification of a Chance Find - Holger Becker The Highest Art of Smithery: Research on a Tyrolean Sword - Florian Messner and Ulrike Töchterle The Battle for Glory: Form and Function of Early Nordic Bronze Age Swords - Jan-Heinrich Bunnefeld The Iron Sword from the ""Warrior's Grave"" in Lanuvium - Fabrizio Savi The Swords of the Italic Kings - Vincenzo D'Ercole The Three Treasures in One Blade: Thoughts on a Rare Form of the Japanese Sword - Michael Mattner "".j. veel feble fauchon dil anxien temps."" The Selection of the Falchion as Symbol of Tenure: Form, Function and Symbolism - Robert W. Jones The Way of the Northmen: The Development of the Norman Sword from Duke Rollo in Normandy to Emperor Frederick II in Sicily from the Tenth to the Thirteenth Century - Nicole Mölk Researching Bronze Age Swordsmanship: Experiments and Wear Analysis - Raphael Hermann and Andrea Dolfini and Rachel J. Crellin and Marion Uckelmann Egenolff's Fight Book: Form and Thought, Then and Now - Matthias Johannes Bauer A Sword for a System: The Pattern 1796 Light Cavalry Sword - Henry Yallop Bibliography Index"

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[The] contributions...combine to provide many insights into sword form, use and meaning across a wide prehistoric to early modern timeframe. * MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY *

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Robert W. Jones is Alumni Association Coordinator and tutor at Advanced Studies in England, an independent study abroad programme based in Bath, England. He is also a Visiting Scholar in History at Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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