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Weapons and Wealth: Economic Effects of the Lucca’s War in Florentine Arms and Armour Production (1429–1433)

Faces of War
In traditional historiography, the wartime context is often judged to have had a uniformly negative impact on medieval economies. While this assessment holds in many respects, it has overlooked the specific sector of arms and armour production and trade,
Simone Picchianti
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Un casco de tipo kettlehat o chapel-de-fer del s. XIII procedente de Kodasoo, Estonia

Gladius, 2011
El casco más antiguo encontrado en Estonia es un «chapel de fer» del siglo XIII que proviene de cerca de la aldea de Kodasoo, en el Norte de Estonia. Tres muestras de diversas partes del casco fueron investigadas mediante un estudio metalográfico.
Jaak Mäll
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The plays with the axe in armour of the Anonimo Bolognese (1510-1515)

Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2021
This contribution examines an anonymous text (Di Accia armato di tutt’arme ) addressing the handling of the axe for armoured combat, compiled in a two-volume anonymous manuscript collection of the beginning of the 16th c. This collection is of particular
Daniel Jaquet
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A sword, a suit of armour and a quiver to be presented to Nicholas II [PDF]

Историческое оружиеведение, 2020
The article deals with the objects from the collection of the Russian museum of ethnography, which were presented on behalf of Dalai Lama XIII to Nicholas II on the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty.
Elizaveta I. Neratova
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In Search of the Specificity of Transformation in the Crown Army during the Reign of the Last Jagiellonians

Fasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae, 2020
In the classical theory of military revolution it is possible to list several distinctive features which, however, do not always correspond to the specificity of the armed forces and theatres of war other than Western-European ones. The transfigurations
Aleksander Bołdyrew
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Votive Armour and Arms [PDF]

The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1881
The custom of dedicating or of specially setting apart articles of use or ornament to divine beings has been common to many peoples, and has come down from a remote antiquity to the present day. Nor is the motive which prompts the action one in any way foreign to the impulses by which men are moved.
Greenwell, W., G., P.
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On the Inventory of Boris Godunov’s Weapon Treasury. The year of 1588 [PDF]

Историческое оружиеведение, 2020
The inventory of boyard Boris Fyodorovitch Godunov’s treasury 1588, was published about one hundred fifty years ago. The part of the document with weapon descriptions is the oldest Russian inventory of the hand-held weapons, armour and other military ...
Aleksandr N. Chubinsky
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Terra incognita? Not only on the arms and armour production in the borderland of Silesia, Brandenburg, Greater Poland and Lusatia in the late Middle Ages

Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej, 2020
During the Middle Ages arms and armour were considered luxury products. They were not used every day and not by everyone. Nonetheless, the circle of their buyers was relatively wide, making their prices extremely diversified.
Arkadiusz Michalak
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Influence of Polish Arms, Armour and Militaria on Western Europe

Gladius, 1980
Hasta antes del siglo XV, las armas y armamento de los caballeros polacos eran muy similares en estilo a los utilizados en Occidente: una pesada armadura, una pesada espada, un pesado caballo.
Z. S. Lenkiewicz
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Resistance of silicon carbide to penetration by a tungsten carbide cored projectile [PDF]

, 2003
Proceedings of the Ceramic Armor and Armor Systems symposium held at the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, 27-30 April 2003, in Nashville, TN, USASilicon carbide is well known as being a ceramic that can be employed as part of an ...
Hazell, Paul J., Roberson, Colin J.
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