Armour of the English Knight, 1400-1450
- ISBN-10
- 0993324606
- ISBN-13
- 9780993324604
- Category
- Armor, Medieval
- Pages
- 308
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015
Description
Written by Tobias Capwell i, Curator of Arms and Armour at the Wallace Collection, this detailed, lavishly illustrated book chronicles the armour worn by English men-at-arms during the later phases of the Hundred Years War, as they fought ...
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