About the Book
The result of fifteen years of research, Armour of the English Knight 1400-1450 represents the first part of a major study, in unprecedented detail, of the evolution of armour in England during the fifteenth century.
This book features many largely unknown visual and documentary sources which, when brought together here for the first time, reveal the existence of an English style of armour design.
Here we discover that English armour was different both artistically and technologically from the products of the great continental armour-producing centres. It was also perfectly suited to the combat requirements of English knights and men-at-arms in particular, who were famous throughout Europe for their highly distinctive dismounted tactics and their prowess when fighting on foot with the pollaxe, spear and longsword.
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