This is the second volume in a comprehensive study of military weapons and equipment in the Middle Ages.
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David C. Nicolle is a leading historian of Middle Eastern and Islamic military history. Arms and Armour of the Crusading Era 10501350, Western Europe and the Crusader States.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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Monumental work, if you know the subject,
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This review is from: Arms & Armour of the Crusading Era, 1050-1350: Islam, Eastern Europe and Asia (Vol 2) (Hardcover)
David Nicolle tends to be biased towards the Mid-East (ie: all good things in the Middle Ages come from Asia), but he manages to mostly leave his biases out in this monumental work. If you are looking for a pretty picture book, or an introduction to the topic, like various Osprey books, this ain't it. What it is a look at surviving pieces, iconography, statuary, and literary referrances to present a comprehensive look at what arms and armour of the period are recorded. Definately more for the serious enthousiast than the casual reader.
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A giant book of drawings with brief info,
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This review is from: Arms & Armour of the Crusading Era, 1050-1350: Islam, Eastern Europe and Asia (Vol 2) (Hardcover)
Upon opening this book you find that it is not really a book but a giant catalog of drawings of archealogical pieces many of which have nothing to do with arms or armour. Each has a brief description and if you wish to see the line drawing of the item described you must continually flip to the back of the book. Besides these short descriptions, actual text amounts to probably only 15 pages throughout the book. Not very informative overall.
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The Byzantine military system which was defeated by the Saljuqs at Manzikert in 1071, and which subsequently failed to contain a Turkish advance into Anatolia, was essentially the same as that which had returned Byzantium to military dominance in the Middle East only a century earlier. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
small lamellar cuirass, mail aventad, tapering sabre, winged mace, quilted soft armour, short lamellar cuirass, tapering sword, situ church, angled ears, lamellar cuirasses, mail chausses, full mail hauberk, lamellar armour, cane construction, lamellar construction, segmented construction, subterranean church, counterweight trebuchet, western steppes, present whereabouts unknown, steppe tradition, large round shield, mail aventails, carved ivory box, curved sabre Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Middle Eastern, Central Asian, Hermitage Museum, New York, Historical Museum, British Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fertile Crescent, Archaeological Museum, National Museum, Volga Bulgar, Byzantine Empire, North Africa, Museum of Islamic Art, Louvre Museum, Encyclopaedia of Islam, Massacre of the Innocents, Black Sea, Freer Gallery, Keir Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Crusader States, Greek Fire, Local Lore Museum New!
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The Byzantine military system which was defeated by the Saljuqs at Manzikert in 1071, and which subsequently failed to contain a Turkish advance into Anatolia, was essentially the same as that which had returned Byzantium to military dominance in the Middle East only a century earlier. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
small lamellar cuirass, mail aventad, tapering sabre, winged mace, quilted soft armour, short lamellar cuirass, tapering sword, situ church, angled ears, lamellar cuirasses, mail chausses, full mail hauberk, lamellar armour, cane construction, lamellar construction, segmented construction, subterranean church, counterweight trebuchet, western steppes, present whereabouts unknown, steppe tradition, large round shield, mail aventails, carved ivory box, curved sabre Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Middle Eastern, Central Asian, Hermitage Museum, New York, Historical Museum, British Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fertile Crescent, Archaeological Museum, National Museum, Volga Bulgar, Byzantine Empire, North Africa, Museum of Islamic Art, Louvre Museum, Encyclopaedia of Islam, Massacre of the Innocents, Black Sea, Freer Gallery, Keir Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Crusader States, Greek Fire, Local Lore Museum New!
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- Islamic Arms and Armour by Robert Elgood on 8 pages
- The Encyclopaedia of Islam (Encyclopaedia of Islam New Edition) by P. J. Bearman on 5 pages
- Oriental Armour by H. Russell Robinson on 4 pages
- Berbers in Arabic Literature (Arab Background Series) by H. T. Norris on 4 pages
- The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650: The Structure of Power (European History in Perspective) by Colin Imber on 4 pages
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