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The original Arms and Equipment Guide was designed by Grant Boucher, Troy Christensen, Jon Pickens, John Terra, and Scott Davis. [1] It was intended for the 2nd edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, and was published in 1991. The book was edited by Anne Brown and Jon Pickens.
Lawrence Person reviewed A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration, and Use of Arms and Armor in All Countries and in All Times in The Space Gamer No. 73. [1] Person commented that "This book has many strong points. [...] Those with an interest in Japanese weapons and armor will be very gratified by this volume.
Tobias Emanuel ("Toby") Capwell FSA (born c. 1973) is an American historian who lives and works in London.His principal interest is in European arms and armour of the medieval and Renaissance periods (roughly, the 12th century to the 16th).
The museum continues the collection's educational programs on medieval history and arms and armor, ranging from school workshops and teacher education to scholarly lectures. The Olive Higgins Prouty Research Library, founded in 1997 with an initial collection of "several thousand books on arms and armor" also remains in the collection. [4]
George Cameron Stone (August 6, 1859 – November 18, 1935) was a well-known American arms collector and author as well as an American mining engineer and metallurgist.He authored a glossary of the antique weapons of the world that remains one of the most comprehensive works ever written on the subject.
Evidence for arms and armour in Anglo-Saxon England derives from three types of sources — archaeological, textual, and illustrative — all of which raise different interpretation issues and are not evenly distributed in a chronological manner. [1]
Little other armor was worn, and fatal blows to unprotected areas (such as the bladder or neck) are recorded in ancient art and poetry. [12] Cavalry armor was designed to be lightweight; over a sleeveless tunic called a chitoniskos the cavalry soldier would wear a muscle cuirass designed to leave the arms as free as possible. [9]
Viking landing at Dublin, 841, by James Ward (1851-1924). Knowledge about military technology of the Viking Age (late 8th to mid-11th century Europe) is based on relatively sparse archaeological finds, pictorial representations, and to some extent on the accounts in the Norse sagas and laws recorded in the 12th–14th centuries.
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