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This fascinating reference covers the weapons and armor used by
warriors from the 4th to the 15th century and discusses how and why
they changed over time. In the Middle Ages, the lack of
standardized weapons meant that one warrior's arms were often quite
different from another's, even when they were fighting on the same
side. And with few major technological advances in that period, the
evolution of those weapons over the centuries was incremental. But
evolve they ultimately did, bringing arms, armor, and siege weapons
to the threshold of the modern era. From the fall of the Roman
Empire to the beginnings of the Renaissance, Medieval Weapons: An
Illustrated History of Their Impact covers the inexorable
transformation from warrior in the mail shirt to fully armored
knight, from the days of spears and swords to the large-scale
adoption of the handgun. Medieval Weapons covers this fascinating
expanse of centuries in chapters devoted to the early medieval,
Carolingian, Crusade, and late medieval periods. Within each
period, the book details how weapons and armor were developed, what
weapons were used for different types of battles, and how weapons
and armor both influenced, and were influenced by, changing tactics
in battles and sieges.
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