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The Defensive Armour and the Weapons and Engines of War of Mediæval Times, and of the "Renaissance."

Chapter 92: Transcriber’s Notes
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About This Book

A concise survey traces the chronological development of personal defence and offensive weaponry from medieval through renaissance periods. It divides material into two main sections—defensive armour and weapons and engines of war—examining chain-mail, transitional harnesses, plate armour, helms, tournament gear, and decorative/enriched suits, alongside discussions of armour-makers, restoration issues, and museum collections. The second section surveys swords, daggers, bows and crossbows, siege machines, early artillery and handguns, and staff and club weapons, with attention to chronology, typology, manufacture, and the practical tensions between protective design and offensive technology.

THE WALTER SCOTT PRESS, NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE.

Transcriber’s Notes

Simple typographical errors were corrected.

Inconsistent hyphenation was not changed. Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were removed only when other, mid-line examples were found in the text. One Index entry was changed to match the page it referenced.

Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.

The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.

Figure 43 is out-of-sequence, as indicated in the original List of Illustrations.

Page 80: “Beauté” was misprinted as “Beaulte”; changed here.

Page 123: “Grünewalt” was printed as “Gruenwalt” on this page, but as “Grünewalt” in the Index. Using the umlaut seems to be the correct spelling.

Footnotes orignally were at the bottoms of pages, but in this eBook, they have been sequentially renumbered, collected, and placed just before the Index.

Footnote 46, originally on page 205: “Liège” was misprinted as “Liége”; changed here.