Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Book

Author:

Wagner, Eduard, 1905-1984.

Title:

Medieval costume, armour, and weapons / selected and illustrated by Eduard Wagner ; text by Zoroslava Drobná & Jan Durdík ; with a new introduction by Vladimír Dolínek.

Publisher, Date:

Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2000.

Description:

72 pages, [383] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Summary:

Presents more than four hundred copyright-free illustrations of weapons, armor, and clothing styles of the medieval period in central Europe, as well as introduction that provides background information from primary sources. Also includes a bibliography.

Subjects:

Clothing and dress -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500.

Armor.

Weapons.

Harnesses.

Other Author:

Drobná, Zoroslava.

Durdík, Jan.

Other Title:

Kroje, zbroj a zbranĕ doby pr̆edhusitské a husitské. English

Notes:

Originally published: Medieval costume, armour, and weapons (1350-1450). London : Andrew Dakers, 1958.

"An unabridged republication of the work translated by Jean Layton ... The only alteration consists in printing the color plates from the original edition in black and white, several of which are repeated in color on the front and back covers, inside and out. A new Introduction has been specially prepared for this edition"--Title page verso.

Translation of a work originally published in the Czech language in 1956.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-72).

Translation of a work originally published in the Czech language in 1956.

Contents:

Bohemian costumes from 1350 to 1450 -- Battle equipment: armour, helmets, shields -- Cut and thrust and haft weapons -- Projectile weapons and siege machines -- Firearms -- Flags and banners -- The horse's harness and bardings -- Waggons -- List of sources and bibliography -- The plates.

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Publisher description

LCCN:

00038419

ISBN:

0486412407

9780486412405

0486412407

9780486412405

Other Number:

43919780

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

339271

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Call Number:

391.0094 Wagner