A Knight and His Weapons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Knight and His Weapons write by R. Ewart Oakeshott. This book was released on 1997. A Knight and His Weapons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Take an engaging journey back in time, when battles were fought with swords, lances, maces, and an array of well-crafted devices that could be elegant and ornate, brutal and efficient, or both. This accessible, lively, and informative book explores many facets of the medieval world of weaponry. Did you know, for instance, that in the fifteenth century "fight books" with drawings guided knights in the proper use of weapons? That the average medieval warrior became a full-fledged fighter by the time he was fifteen years old? Or that armor made by a master could, by modern standards, cost the price of a Rolls Royce?
European Weapons and Armour
European Weapons and Armour - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook European Weapons and Armour write by Ewart Oakeshott. This book was released on 2012. European Weapons and Armour available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of arms in Western Europe from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution. A treasury of information based on solid scholarship, anyone seeking a factual and vivid account of the story of arms from the Renaissance period to the Industrial Revolution will welcome this book. The author chooses as his starting-point the invasion of Italy by France in 1494, which sowed the dragon's teeth of all the successive European wars; the French invasion was to accelerate the trend towards new armaments and new methods of warfare. The authordescribes the development of the handgun and the pike, the use and style of staff-weapons, mace and axe and war-hammer, dagger and dirk and bayonet. He shows how armour attained its full Renaissance splendour and then suffered itssorry and inevitable decline, culminating in the Industrial Revolution, with its far-reaching effects on military armaments. Above all, he follows the long history of the sword, queen of weapons, to the late eighteenth century, when it finally ceased to form a part of a gentleman's every-day wear. Lavishly illustrated. EWART OAKESHOTT was one of the world's leading authorities on the arms and armour of medieval Europe. His other works on the subject include Records of the Medieval Sword and The Sword in the Age of Chivalry.
A Knight and His Castle
A Knight and His Castle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Knight and His Castle write by R. Ewart Oakeshott. This book was released on 1997. A Knight and His Castle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the author's famous life of a medieval knight series, this book provides a lively and informative history of the castle, its design, building, defense, as well as its armoury, daily life, and the training of knights.
Sword of Fire and Sea
Sword of Fire and Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sword of Fire and Sea write by Erin Hoffman. This book was released on 2011-06-28. Sword of Fire and Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Captain Vidarian Rulorat's great-grandfather gave up an imperial commission to commit social catastrophe by marrying a fire priestess. For love, he unwittingly doomed his family to generations of a rare genetic disease that follows families who cross elemental boundaries. Now Vidarian, the last surviving member of the Rulorat family, struggles to uphold his family legacy, and finds himself chained to a task as a result of the bride price his great-grandfather paid: The priestess Endera has called upon Vidarian to fulfill his family's obligation by transporting a young fire priestess named Ariadel to a water temple far to the south, through dangerous pirate-controlled territory. Vidarian finds himself at the intersection not only of the world's most volatile elements, but of the ancient and alien powers that lurk between them...
A Knight in Battle
A Knight in Battle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Knight in Battle write by R. Ewart Oakeshott. This book was released on 1998. A Knight in Battle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describes the horses used by knights in the Middle Ages, as well as the equipment and weapons they used in battle.
