Medieval England, Volume 1Austin Lane Poole Clarendon Press, 1958 - 661 pages Volume 1 looks at the English countryside, domestic and military architecture, warefare, shipping, communications, towns & trade, coinage, clothing, arms & armor, and heraldry. |
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Page 322
... armour of the upper arm to the elbow and the vambrace as that for the fore - arm below the elbow . All elements were riveted together in such a way that they were flexible , and this flexibility was further increased by allowing the ...
... armour of the upper arm to the elbow and the vambrace as that for the fore - arm below the elbow . All elements were riveted together in such a way that they were flexible , and this flexibility was further increased by allowing the ...
Page 325
... armour . Writers on armour have often described the armour of the fifteenth century as ' Gothic ' . This term applies more cor rectly to the German variety , whose forms and ornamental details reproduced in miniature the architecture of ...
... armour . Writers on armour have often described the armour of the fifteenth century as ' Gothic ' . This term applies more cor rectly to the German variety , whose forms and ornamental details reproduced in miniature the architecture of ...
Page 336
... armour has come back to us in a new form , several men being encased in one tank and its weight carried by mechanical traction . The battle between defence and attack , between mobility and safety , continues . WORKS FOR REFERENCE The ...
... armour has come back to us in a new form , several men being encased in one tank and its weight carried by mechanical traction . The battle between defence and attack , between mobility and safety , continues . WORKS FOR REFERENCE The ...
Contents
in Economic History in the University of Oxford | 1 |
land and Fen 1417 4 The Moorlands 1819 5 The Monastic | 7 |
DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE AND TOWNPLAN | 37 |
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