Armor and Arms / An elementary handbook and guide to the collection in the City Art Museum of St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.

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Thomas T. Hoopes

PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

THE EARLIEST ARMOR AND ARMS

CHAIN MAIL

"GOTHIC" ARMOR

"MAXIMILIAN" ARMOR

ARMOR OF THE LATE XVI CENTURY: DECORATED ARMOR

LATE ARMOR

QUESTIONS CONCERNING ARMOR

MIDDLE EASTERN ARMOR

ARMS: STRIKING AND CUTTING WEAPONS

LANCES AND POLE ARMS

MIDDLE EASTERN EDGED WEAPONS

PROJECTILE WEAPONS: BOWS AND CROSSBOWS

PROJECTILE WEAPONS: FIREARMS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Transcriber's Notes

The Helmet of a Commander
Bronze, silver, and ivory. Greek, mid-VI century B.C.
From a Greek colony at Metaponto, Italy

ARMOR AND ARMS

An elementary handbook and guide to the collection in the
City Art Museum of St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.

by
Thomas T. Hoopes
Curator of the Museum

State sword, German, Augsburg, XVI century

St. Louis, Missouri
1954

Copyright 1954 by the City Art Museum of St. Louis, Mo.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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