European Mail Armour : : Ringed Battle Shirts from the Iron Age, Roman Period and Early Middle Ages / / Martijn A. Wijnhoven.
Mail armour (commonly mislabelled 'chainmail') was used for more than two millennia on the battlefield. After its invention in the Iron Age, mail rapidly spread all over Europe and beyond. The Roman army, keen on new military technology, soon adopted mail armour and used it successfully fo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Amsterdam Archaeological Studies
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The origins of mail armour
- 3 Distribution and archaeological context
- 4 The iconography of early mail armour
- 5 The naming of mail armour
- 6 Decoration in mail garments
- 7 Padded garments
- 8 The craft of making mail rings
- 9 Weaving patterns
- 10 The construction of mail garments
- 11 Ring characteristics
- 12 Final considerations
- Bibliography
- Database
- Appendix 1. Catalogue of mail armour
- Appendix 2. Catalogue of hybrid armour
- Appendix 3. Catalogue of isolated finds of fasteners and fixtures
- Appendix 4. Finds excluded from the database