The Tower armoury in the fourteenth century /
The documents surviving from the privy wardrobe, the department which administrated the Tower armoury under Edward III, Richard II and Henry IV, provide a unique insight into the use of arms and armor in England as the Hundred Years War unfolded. Here, Thom Richardson expertly brings these documents...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leeds, England :
Royal Armouries Museum,
[2016]
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| Summary: | The documents surviving from the privy wardrobe, the department which administrated the Tower armoury under Edward III, Richard II and Henry IV, provide a unique insight into the use of arms and armor in England as the Hundred Years War unfolded. Here, Thom Richardson expertly brings these documents to life. He answers many long-standing questions and challenges a number of assumptions, notably about the use of the longbow and the wearing of armor during that formative period of English history. Richardson shows how the previously peripatetic armory became established in the Tower of London at the outbreak of the Hundred Years War, and grew into the national arsenal which today forms the basis of the Royal Armouries, the national museum of arms and armor. |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 254 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-248) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780948092756 0948092750 |