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

Gergely Csiky
4.9/5 (12244 ratings)
Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Avar-Age Polearms and Edged Weapons : Classification, Typology, Chronology and Technology. To get started finding Avar-Age Polearms and Edged Weapons : Classification, Typology, Chronology and Technology, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
544
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Release
2015
ISBN
9004226613

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

Gergely Csiky
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Avar-Age Polearms and Edged Weapons : Classification, Typology, Chronology and Technology. To get started finding Avar-Age Polearms and Edged Weapons : Classification, Typology, Chronology and Technology, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
544
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Release
2015
ISBN
9004226613

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