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This image was scanned from my private collection
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Introduction- The Origins of the Knight
- ONE: The Eleventh Century - Adventurers to Aristocrats
- TWO: The Twelfth Century - The Era of the Crusades
- THREE: Paladins and Paynims - the Thirteenth Century
- FOUR: The Fourteenth Century - The Parfait Gentil Knight
- FIVE: Courtesy and Carnage - the Fifteenth Century
- SIX: The Sixteenth Century - The Final Flowering
- SEVEN: Tournaments - The Sport of Princes
- Appendices
- Glossary
- Index
- Acknowledgments
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Title: Arms & Armor of the Medieval Knight: An Illustrated History of Weaponry in the Middle Ages
Author/Designer: David Edge, John Miles Paddock
Format/Publication Date: HC:1988
Publisher: Bison Books Corp., Greenwich, CT
Page Count: 192
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: 0517644681
SUMMARY- The don't go into great detail about actual construction, but there is some terrific photos of chain mail as part of the armor worn, and a picture of a 15th century shirt from Germany on page 130. Lots of eye candy for period work in general, with a tiny bit of chain mail represented peeking out at you now and then.
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