Author : Ewart Oakeshott
Release : 1998
Genre : Antiques & Collectibles
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The Sword in the Age of Chivalry - 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 The Sword in the Age of Chivalry write by Ewart Oakeshott. This book was released on 1998. The Sword in the Age of Chivalry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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, refines and illustrates a detailed typology of swords which takes in entire swords, pommel-forms, cross-guards, and the grip and scabbard.