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British Basket-Hilted Swords: A Typology of Basket-Type Sword Hilts

British Basket-Hilted Swords: A Typology of Basket-Type Sword Hilts

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Medieval & Renaissance HistoryTechnology & EngineeringArchaeology

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ISBN10: 1843830531
ISBN13: 9781843830535
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
Pages: 318
Weight: 2.94
Height: 0.95 Width: 8.82 Depth: 10.96
Language: English
The phrase basket-type hilts refers to a large group of hilts which provide a degree of protection to the hand and wrist. Basket-hilted swords have featured prominently among British military edged weapons over the past five centuries, from the Wars of the Roses in the mid fifteenth century to the period immediately after the second Boer War of the early twentieth century. In setting out to give a full account of the hilt type, and the many variants withinit, the first necessity has been to provide an appropriate terminology to employ in cataloguing and describing individual examples. The book, well illustrated with 100 black and white illustrations, falls into several parts, dealing successively with general aspects of various hilt types and discussion of typological methodology, the three major groups of basket-hilted swords, the diverse group of incomplete basket hilts, mortuary hilts, and hilts closely related to mortuary hilts. CYRIL MAZANSKY's expertise in British military swords grew out of his interest in aspects of British military history. His large collection of British military swords may be seen at Brown University, donated by the author.

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