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European Weapons and Armour - From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution (Paperback)
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European Weapons and Armour - From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution (Paperback)
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The story of arms in Western Europe from the Renaissance to the
Industrial Revolution. A treasury of information based on solid
scholarship, anyone seeking a factual and vivid account of the
story of arms from the Renaissance period to the Industrial
Revolution will welcome this book. The author chooses as his
starting-point the invasion of Italy by France in 1494, which sowed
the dragon's teeth of all the successive European wars; the French
invasion was to accelerate the trend towards new armaments and new
methods of warfare. The authordescribes the development of the
handgun and the pike, the use and style of staff-weapons, mace and
axe and war-hammer, dagger and dirk and bayonet. He shows how
armour attained its full Renaissance splendour and then suffered
itssorry and inevitable decline, culminating in the Industrial
Revolution, with its far-reaching effects on military armaments.
Above all, he follows the long history of the sword, queen of
weapons, to the late eighteenth century, when it finally ceased to
form a part of a gentleman's every-day wear. Lavishly illustrated.
EWART OAKESHOTT was one of the world's leading authorities on the
arms and armour of medieval Europe. His other works on the subject
include Records of the Medieval Sword and The Sword in the Age of
Chivalry.
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