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Description about Armour and Weapons :
This volume was published in 1909.
AUTHOR’S NOTE:
AT the request of many of those who attended my course of
lectures, delivered before the University of Oxford during the
Lent Term, 1909, I have collected and illustrated some of the
more important notes dealing with the Development of European
Defensive Armour and Weapons. These pages are not a mere
reprint of those lectures, nor do they aspire to the dignity of
a History of Armour. They are simply intended as a handbook
for use in studying history and a short guide to the somewhat
intricate technicalities of the Craft of the Armourer.
No work, even of the smallest dimensions, can be produced
at the present day without laying its author under a deep sense
of indebtedness to Baron de Cosson for his numerous notes on
helms and helmets, and to Viscount Dillon for his minute and
invaluable researches in every branch of this subject. To this
must be added a personal indebtedness to the latter for much
assistance, and for the use of many of the illustrations given in
this work and also in my course of lectures.
CHARLES FFOULKES
OXFORD, 1909
…………………………………………………………………….
A 5-STAR Review:
Reviewer: Zither – - January 18, 2010
Subject: One-Stop Armoury Reference for Authors Researching Novels (NNWM Forever!)
For those writing historical fiction or heroic fiction needing armour and swords in the European mode, this is all you need for your basis.
For anyone this is an excellent introduction to the study of
European armour and weapons. It was originally purposed as,
not a specialist’s text covering everything (which nothing ever
does), but a home reference of moderate price that would be
accurate as well as readable. Many full-colour books sold in
the stores today are full of garbage arms myths, including
“Where did they get that?” names for things that will only foul
you up when you get deeper in. So ever if you think you know
a lot, if you haven’t read this – read it. It may reveal holes in
your knowledge by filling them, and spotlight some of the stuff
in your mind that’s drawing flies.
Don’t worry about the age. Charles Ffoulkes is one of the
all-time greats on the subject. Look at his other books. He did
the inventory of the armoury of the Tower of London. He wrote
a perfectly readable book on the armourers of Europe and their
methods of craft and reasons for their engineering choices. You
really can’t talk about armour until you have read his, “The
Armourer and His Craft.
Much of what he published on armour and its construction and
how to wear it has been missed by many so-called experts of
today on the subject: I have no idea why, but some people
just can’t be bothered to imagine that a book that is “old” might
still be valuable. Frankly, I think many of them, having read
their dozen glossy books, don’t want any ideas that will muss up
their settled opinions.
For most people, this will be all the reference they ever need.
If armour and weapons is not your sole or primary interest, if
you are interested in other aspects of the Middle Ages, even
if it is milhist, this gives you all you really need on identifying
equipment. One does not have to get into breaking down hilt
design types, especially when they seem to signify nothing
except, perhaps, area of origin or personal taste.
This volume was published in 1909.
AUTHOR’S NOTE:
AT the request of many of those who attended my course of
lectures, delivered before the University of Oxford during the
Lent Term, 1909, I have collected and illustrated some of the
more important notes dealing with the Development of European
Defensive Armour and Weapons. These pages are not a mere
reprint of those lectures, nor do they aspire to the dignity of
a History of Armour. They are simply intended as a handbook
for use in studying history and a short guide to the somewhat
intricate technicalities of the Craft of the Armourer.
No work, even of the smallest dimensions, can be produced
at the present day without laying its author under a deep sense
of indebtedness to Baron de Cosson for his numerous notes on
helms and helmets, and to Viscount Dillon for his minute and
invaluable researches in every branch of this subject. To this
must be added a personal indebtedness to the latter for much
assistance, and for the use of many of the illustrations given in
this work and also in my course of lectures.
CHARLES FFOULKES
OXFORD, 1909
…………………………………………………………………….
A 5-STAR Review:
Reviewer: Zither – - January 18, 2010
Subject: One-Stop Armoury Reference for Authors Researching Novels (NNWM Forever!)
For those writing historical fiction or heroic fiction needing armour and swords in the European mode, this is all you need for your basis.
For anyone this is an excellent introduction to the study of
European armour and weapons. It was originally purposed as,
not a specialist’s text covering everything (which nothing ever
does), but a home reference of moderate price that would be
accurate as well as readable. Many full-colour books sold in
the stores today are full of garbage arms myths, including
“Where did they get that?” names for things that will only foul
you up when you get deeper in. So ever if you think you know
a lot, if you haven’t read this – read it. It may reveal holes in
your knowledge by filling them, and spotlight some of the stuff
in your mind that’s drawing flies.
Don’t worry about the age. Charles Ffoulkes is one of the
all-time greats on the subject. Look at his other books. He did
the inventory of the armoury of the Tower of London. He wrote
a perfectly readable book on the armourers of Europe and their
methods of craft and reasons for their engineering choices. You
really can’t talk about armour until you have read his, “The
Armourer and His Craft.
Much of what he published on armour and its construction and
how to wear it has been missed by many so-called experts of
today on the subject: I have no idea why, but some people
just can’t be bothered to imagine that a book that is “old” might
still be valuable. Frankly, I think many of them, having read
their dozen glossy books, don’t want any ideas that will muss up
their settled opinions.
For most people, this will be all the reference they ever need.
If armour and weapons is not your sole or primary interest, if
you are interested in other aspects of the Middle Ages, even
if it is milhist, this gives you all you really need on identifying
equipment. One does not have to get into breaking down hilt
design types, especially when they seem to signify nothing
except, perhaps, area of origin or personal taste.
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