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Avar-Age Polearms and Edged Weapons: Classification, Typology, Chronology and Technology

Avar-Age Polearms and Edged Weapons: Classification, Typology, Chronology and Technology

Csiky, Gergely

Hardcover

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryTechnology & EngineeringOther Wars

ISBN10: 9004226613
ISBN13: 9789004226616
Publisher: Brill
Published: Sep 17 2015
Pages: 532
Weight: 1.95
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
In Avar-Age Polearms and Edged Weapons, Gergely Csiky offers a presentation of close combat weapons of a nomadic population that migrated from Inner Asia to East-Central Europe. During the late 6th - early 7th centuries, the Avars led successful military campaigns against the Balkan realms of the Byzantine Empire, facilitated by their cavalry's use of stirrups for the first time in Europe.
Besides the classification, manufacturing techniques, fittings, suspension, distribution, and chronology of polearms and edged weapons known from Avar-age burials, a special emphasis is laid on the origins and cultural contacts of these weapons, among them the first edged weapons with curved blades: the sabres. The social significance and, function of these artefacts is discussed in order to place them in nomadic warfare.

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