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Arms and Armour of the Crusading Era 1050-1350: Western Europe and the Crusader States (v. 1)

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If you want to have your armor be as authentic as possible, backup your kit with archeological evidence! This book has meticulous records and line-art drawings of everything. If there was a church drawing of a knight, this book has it in there. Don't be Farby, this book makes kit research easy and documentable.

This book is fantastic. I use it all the time when i am doing research for my next historical miniature. This book is a comprehensive study of all artifacts and iconography that exist of the crusader era. If you want date a piece of armor, look it up. If you want to see if a certain piece of armor was used in germany, look it up. This breaks down all the known articfacts by county and then lists them in order by date. It helps greatly. The line drawings help give you a visual picture of what the articacts look like and where they can be found. If you have the means to travel as part of your research this book would help you greatly because it gives the exact locations of all the arifacts and you can go see them for youtself and if travel is not an option, this book is very valuable a means to know exactly what does exist out there and gives you a visual picture. Its best used as a means to back up other references. Great book. The only reason it didnt get 5 stars from me is the fact that it could give more detail about some of the objects like actual pieces of armor or swords, i.e, what they are made of, weight, height ect.

The best book on arms and armour for every serious researcher. But not for the beginners.