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The Archaeology of Weapons

Author: R. Ewart Oakeshott

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9780486292885

British arthority on medieval weapons surveys European arms and armor from the Bronze Age to the time of triumph of gunpowder.

Mediaeval Painters' Materials and Techniques

Author: Mark Clarke

Publisher: Archetype Publications

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781904982647

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Medieval painting was a craft. The anonymous Montpellier Liber diversarum arcium ('Book of various arts') is a handbook prescribing how that craft was to be practiced. It contains over five hundred art-technological instructions or 'recipes' in Latin. Unlike the vast majority of medieval artists' recipe books, this content is highly structured and organised, such as to form a complete handbook or course on painting. This Liber diversarum arcium is probably the most substantial and comprehensive medieval painters' technical recipe book to survive. It summarises the state-of-the art in the European workshops of the fourteenth century. This volume makes the Liber diversarum arcium usable to modern readers for the first time, by restoring the text in over 150 places where its corruption obscures the technical sense, by translating the text into English, and by providing a running commentary to explain the technical processes and technical terminology.

European Armour in the Tower of London

Author: Arthur Richard Dufty

Publisher:

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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The Colours of Our Memories

Author: Michel Pastoureau

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2020-09-08

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1509533958

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What remains of the colours of our childhood? What are our memories of a blue rabbit, a red dress, a yellow bike – and were they really those colours? What colours do we associate with our student years, our first loves, our adult lives? How does colour leave its mark on memory? In an attempt to answer these and other questions, Michel Pastoureau presents us with a journal about colours that covers half a century. Drawing on personal recollections, he retraces the recent history of colours through an exploration of fashion and clothing, everyday objects and practices, emblems and flags, sport, literature, museums and art. This text – playful, poetic, nostalgic – records the life of both the author and his contemporaries. We live in a world increasingly bursting with colour, in which colour remains a focus for memory, a source of delight and, most of all, an invitation to dream.

The Sword in the Age of Chivalry

Author: Ewart Oakeshott

Publisher: Boydell Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780851157153

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The Resplendent image of the medieval knight is concentrated in the symbolism of his sword. The straight, two-edged, cross-hilted knightly sword of the European middle ages was an object of vital importance, a lethal weapon on the battlefield and a badge of chivalry in that complex social code. Ewart Oakeshott draws on his extensive research and expert eye (and hand, for he has a special sense for the feel of a sword) to develop a typology for and recount the history of the sword, from the knightly successors of the Viking weapon to the emergence of the Renaissance sword - that is, roughly from 1050 to 1550. Within this time-span, two distinct groups of swords successively evolved. Problems of dating are acute, and evidence is adduced from literature and art as well as from archaeology, for a sword (or some parts of a sword) could have been in use several generations after it first saw battle. To deal with such overlap, Ewart Oakeshott develops, refines and illustrates a detailed typology of swords which takes in entire swords, pommel-forms, cross-guards, and the grip and scabbard.