R. Coltman Clephan

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

THE DEFENSIVE ARMOUR AND THE WEAPONS AND ENGINES OF WAR OF MEDIAEVAL TIMES, AND OF THE "RENAISSANCE."

SECTION I. DEFENSIVE ARMOUR.

PART I. INTRODUCTORY AND GENERAL.

PART II. CHAIN-MAIL AND MIXED ARMOUR.

PART III. THE TRANSITION PERIOD.

PART IV. HELMS UP TO THE END OF THE TRANSITION PERIOD.

PART V. PLATE ARMOUR.

PART VI. A SLIGHT SKETCH OF SOME OF THE MORE IMPORTANT COLLECTIONS ABROAD.

PART VII. THE TOURNAMENT.

PART VIII. DETAILS OF DEFENSIVE PLATE ARMOUR.

PART IX. "GOTHIC" ARMOUR, 1440 (1500); AND SOME ARMOUR-SMITHS OF THE PERIOD.

PART X. MAXIMILIAN ARMOUR, 1500 - 1540.

PART XI. ARMOUR WITH LAMBOYS OR BASES.

PART XII. SOME ARMOUR-SMITHS OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

PART XIII. DEFENSIVE ARMOUR, 1540 (1620), AND TO THE END.

PART XIV. ENRICHED ARMOUR.

SECTION II. THE WEAPONS AND ENGINES OF WAR.

PART XV. INTRODUCTORY AND GENERAL.

PART XVI. THE SWORD.

PART XVII. THE DAGGER.

PART XVIII. THE LONGBOW.

PART XIX. THE CROSSBOW.

PART XX. MACHINES FOR HURLING OR SHOOTING MISSILES, AND THE WARWOLF.

PART XXI. MACHINES FOR ATTACKING BELEAGUERED PLACES.

PART XXII. THE SLING AND FUSTIBAL.

PART XXIII. STAFF AND CLUB WEAPONS.

PART XXIV. EARLY ARTILLERY.

PART XXV. EARLY HAND-GUNS.

FOOTNOTES

INDEX.

Transcriber's Notes

Transcriber’s Note

The cover was created by Transcriber, using text and artwork from the orignal book, and placed in the Public Domain.

THE DEFENSIVE ARMOUR AND THE WEAPONS AND ENGINES OF WAR OF MEDIÆVAL TIMES, AND OF THE “RENAISSANCE.”

BY
Robert Coltman Clephan,
OF SOUTHDENE TOWER, GATESHEAD.

London: Walter Scott, Limited,
PATERNOSTER SQUARE.
1900.