Description: European Weapons and Armour : From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution, Paperback by Oakeshott, Ewart, ISBN 184383720X, ISBN-13 9781843837206, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 author describes 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 its sorry 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 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.
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Number of Pages: 312 Pages
Publication Name: European Weapons and Armour : from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution
Language: English
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
Publication Year: 2012
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Archaeology, Military / Weapons, Military / General, Europe / General, Europe / Medieval
Item Weight: 19 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.6 in
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Author: Ewart Oakeshott
Item Width: 6.8 in
Format: Trade Paperback
