British & Continental Arms and Armour

by Charles H. Ashdown and Charles Henry Ashdown

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486224902
• ISBN13: 9780486224909
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

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The essential armour history by old-school scholar

Perhaps the most complete chronology of armour development and the societal, functional, religious, and stylish influences from earliest attempts at bodily defense to the dissolusion of armour with the development of powder actuated weapons. Ashdown concentrates heavily on the transitions of the Middle Ages. He explains the cause and effect relationships between modes of warfare and tournament, devellopment of weaponry, and the parallel devellopment of armour. A truly essential work of armour scholarship by one of the subject's foremost old-school historians.