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Preface [v]
[SECTION I.—DEFENSIVE ARMOUR.]
PART
I.Introductory and General[15]
II.Chain-mail and Mixed Armour[20]
III.The Transition Period[37]
IV.Helms up to the End of the Transition Period[44]
V.Plate Armour[48]
VI.A Slight Sketch of some of the more important Collections Abroad[71]
VII.The Tournament[76]
VIII.Details of Defensive Plate Armour[96]
IX.“Gothic” Armour, 1440–1500; and some Armour-smiths of the Period[114]
X.“Maximilian” Armour, 1500–1540[125]
XI.Armour with Lamboys or Bases[130]
XII.Some Armour-smiths of the first half of the Sixteenth Century[132]
XIII.Defensive Armour, 1540–1620, and to the End[134]
XIV.Enriched Armour[139]
[SECTION II.—THE WEAPONS AND ENGINES OF WAR.]
XV.Introductory and General[151]
XVI.The Sword[158]
XVII.The Dagger[175]
XVIII.The Longbow[178]
XIX.The Crossbow[183]
XX.Machines for hurling or shooting Missiles, and the Warwolf[187]
XXI.Machines for attacking Beleaguered Places[190]
XXII.The Sling and Fustibal[192]
XXIII.Staff and Club Weapons[193]
XXIV.Early Artillery[204]
XXV.Early Hand-guns[216]
Index[229]