title: Medieval Arms and Armor: A Pictorial Archive (Dover Pictorial Archive)
author: J. H. von Hefner-Alteneck
description: <div><P>A renowned nineteenth-century cultural historian and specialist on the Middle Ages, J. H. Hefner-Alteneck spent much of his life observing the influence of art on many aspects of human life, including weaponry. His illustrations for this handsome archive&#8212;drawn with incredible exactitude&#8212;depict a wide array of medieval weapons and armor dating from the early ninth century to the mid-1700s.<BR>Adapted primarily from decorative ornamentation on burial monuments and manuscripts, hundreds of finely executed images depict authentic shields, swords, crossbows, helmets, and highly ornate suits of body armor for knights and their steeds. Newly translated descriptive notes, extracted from the original German text, identify the subjects.<br>First published more than 100 years ago, this meticulously rendered study remains an invaluable source of permission-free illustrations for artists and designers and an indispensable reference for scholars, collectors, and hobbyists.<BR>Unabridged Dover (2004) republication of illustrations from <I>Waffen: Ein Beitrag zur historischen Waffenkunde vom Beginn des Mittelalters bis gegen Ende des Siebzehnten Jahrhunderts</I>, Verlag von Heinrich Keller, Frankfurt am Main, 1903.<BR></div>
zlib_text: 1
  The Complete Catalogue of Extant 
  XIVth Century Armour (or better, an attempt )
  by
  Augusto Boer Bront
  ver. 1.6
  
  2
  - Goll, Matthias, Interdisciplinary Studies on the Technology of Late Medieval European Plate 
  Armour Production Between 1350 and 1500, Philosophical Faculty of the University of Hei-
  delberg, 2013
  - Williams, Alan, The Knight and the Blast Furnace, Brill Academic Publishers, 2003
  - Boccia, Lionello, L’Arte dell’Armatura in Italia, Bramante Editrice, 1967
  - Scalini, Mario and Trapp, Oswald Graf, The Armoury of the Castle Churburg, Magnus 
  Edizioni SpA, 1996 
  -Thordeman, Bengt, Armour From the Battle of Wisby, Chivalry Bookshelf, 2002
  - Žákovsk, Petrý, and Hošek, Jiří and Cisár, Vlado, A Unique Finding of a Great Helm from 
  the Dalečín Castle in Moravia, 2012
  - Aleš Knàpek,  Pavel Macků - A Unique Armour Component from Ronovec Castle
  - Andrzej Szpunar, Marcin Glinianowicz - Uzbrojenie Późnośredniowieczne z Z amku w 
  Czchowie w Małopolsce
  - The Metropolian Museum in New Yor