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

PART I.

INTRODUCTORY AND GENERAL.

The phrases, “the Stone,” “Bronze,” and “Iron Ages” are mere generalizations fast losing their significance, and the purposes of this volume will not permit of any special disquisition on the weapons of these mixed and merging classifications of periods, or even those recorded of the Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek, Roman, and Eastern peoples; beyon...