Title: British and foreign arms & armour /
Authors: Ashdown, Charles Henry.
Publisher: T. C. & E. C. Jack,
Year: 1909
Subjects: Armor
Contents: Weapons of prehistoric man. -- The Assyrians. -- The Romans. -- Saxons and Danes. -- The Norman period to 1180. -- The chain mail period, 1180-1250. -- Chain mail reinforced, 1250-1325. -- The cyclas period, 1325-1335. -- The studded and splinted armour period, 1335-1360. -- The camail and jupon period, 1360-1410. -- The surcoatless period, 1410-1430. -- The tabard period, 1430-1500. -- The transition period, 1500-1525. -- Maximilian armour, 1525- 1600. -- The half-armour period after 1600. -- Weapons of the early and middle ages. -- Projectile-throwing engines. -- German, Italian, and other influences upon European armour. -- The introduction of gunpowder and its influence upon armour.