Category: History - Medieval/Middle Ages
This publication is a guide to the armor and arms in the City Art Museum of St. Louis and, incidentally, a very elementary introduction to the history of arms and armor in general. The major part of the Museum’s collection, comprising the European armor and arms of the fifteen...
But its worst disadvantage lay in its flexibility. It would resist a cut, but was of little protection against a blow. To make it of any use in battle against heavy swords, mace...
3. Part 3The Persian armorers did not follow the European custom of forging body armor exactly to fit the wearer, but instead made the principal defense of four rectangular plates known...
1. Part 1This publication is a guide to the armor and arms in the City Art Museum of St. Louis and, incidentally, a very elementary introduction to the history of arms and armor in gener...
4. Part 4A light hunting rifle (Fig. 46 [3]) with a very short stock of the type known as _tschinke_ from the fact that such guns were made at the town of Teschen in German Silesia, date...