Arms & ArmourPub Date : 2024-08-19DOI: 10.1080/17416124.2024.2386499
Peter G. Smithurst
{"title":"Accelerator guns: from ‘Cannon Perreaux’ to V.3","authors":"Peter G. Smithurst","doi":"10.1080/17416124.2024.2386499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17416124.2024.2386499","url":null,"abstract":"Artillery designers are always searching for means of improving a gun’s external and internal ballistic properties and this resulted in both new theories surrounding gun construction based on the p...","PeriodicalId":40914,"journal":{"name":"Arms & Armour","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142217110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arms & ArmourPub Date : 2024-08-17DOI: 10.1080/17416124.2024.2391608
Cornelius Berthold, Ingo Petri
{"title":"Up is down: some hypotheses on how to interpret perspective in MS I.33’s illustrations","authors":"Cornelius Berthold, Ingo Petri","doi":"10.1080/17416124.2024.2391608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17416124.2024.2391608","url":null,"abstract":" The oldest known European fight book, Royal Armouries MS I.33 has puzzled scholars and sword fighting enthusiasts alike with its occasionally strange looking illustrations. This paper argues that ...","PeriodicalId":40914,"journal":{"name":"Arms & Armour","volume":"292 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142217111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arms & ArmourPub Date : 2024-08-17DOI: 10.1080/17416124.2024.2386504
Arthur G. Credland
{"title":"Abraham Charles Kirkmann, lawyer and antiquary; and the rediscovery of the Bosworth stonebow at Browsholme Hall","authors":"Arthur G. Credland","doi":"10.1080/17416124.2024.2386504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17416124.2024.2386504","url":null,"abstract":"The wanderings of an Elizabethan stonebow are traced from its discovery at Bosworth field in the eighteenth century and originally thought to be mediaeval relic of the famous battle. It passed thro...","PeriodicalId":40914,"journal":{"name":"Arms & Armour","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142217112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arms & ArmourPub Date : 2024-05-09DOI: 10.1080/17416124.2024.2347780
N. R. Jenzen-Jones, Vernon Easley
{"title":"Update: Martini-type rifle production in Afghanistan","authors":"N. R. Jenzen-Jones, Vernon Easley","doi":"10.1080/17416124.2024.2347780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17416124.2024.2347780","url":null,"abstract":"This short research note serves as an update to the authors’ 2020 article examining the history of Martini-type rifles in Afghanistan between 1878 and 1925 (Arms & Armour, Vol. 17 No. 1). Ongoing r...","PeriodicalId":40914,"journal":{"name":"Arms & Armour","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140929668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arms & ArmourPub Date : 2024-03-07DOI: 10.1080/17416124.2024.2316967
Stephen Wren
{"title":"The Swiss Vetterli rifle in America. From soldier to coal miner","authors":"Stephen Wren","doi":"10.1080/17416124.2024.2316967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17416124.2024.2316967","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the connections between Switzerland and America that led to the development of the Vetterli infantry rifle. Using primary archival research, it shows why the Swiss Army was so...","PeriodicalId":40914,"journal":{"name":"Arms & Armour","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140071336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arms & ArmourPub Date : 2024-03-07DOI: 10.1080/17416124.2024.2316976
Iason-Eleftherios Tzouriadis
{"title":"A Cultural History of the Medieval Sword: Power, Piety and Play","authors":"Iason-Eleftherios Tzouriadis","doi":"10.1080/17416124.2024.2316976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17416124.2024.2316976","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Arms & Armour (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":40914,"journal":{"name":"Arms & Armour","volume":"227 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140071092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arms & ArmourPub Date : 2024-02-27DOI: 10.1080/17416124.2024.2316985
Chunyu Li, Fang Chen
{"title":"Research on the Manufacturing Process and Restoration of a Brigandine of the Ming Dynasty – A Case Study of the Brigandine Exhibited in Hangzhou Arts and Crafts Museum","authors":"Chunyu Li, Fang Chen","doi":"10.1080/17416124.2024.2316985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17416124.2024.2316985","url":null,"abstract":"The Ming brigandine was a suit of armour with riveted plates concealed inside the cloth cover, which is different from the armour of previous dynasties, which strung the plates with one plate overl...","PeriodicalId":40914,"journal":{"name":"Arms & Armour","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140003604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arms & ArmourPub Date : 2024-02-26DOI: 10.1080/17416124.2024.2308447
Oliver H. Creighton, Alan K. Outram, Eleanor Wilkinson-Keys
{"title":"New light on the Warwick Shaffron: understanding horse and shaffron size through the collections of the Royal Armouries","authors":"Oliver H. Creighton, Alan K. Outram, Eleanor Wilkinson-Keys","doi":"10.1080/17416124.2024.2308447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17416124.2024.2308447","url":null,"abstract":"The Warwick Shaffron, held in the collections of the Royal Armouries (VI.446) is the earliest extant example of a European medieval shaffron on public display anywhere in the world. In addition to ...","PeriodicalId":40914,"journal":{"name":"Arms & Armour","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140003823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arms & ArmourPub Date : 2024-01-11DOI: 10.1080/17416124.2023.2296817
David R. Bellwood, Orpha Bellwood, Hannah R. Bellwood, Oliver R. Bellwood
{"title":"Sixteenth century recessed armour: evaluating links with the Spanish Armada","authors":"David R. Bellwood, Orpha Bellwood, Hannah R. Bellwood, Oliver R. Bellwood","doi":"10.1080/17416124.2023.2296817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17416124.2023.2296817","url":null,"abstract":"Several black and white Italian cabassets, and associated armours, are described. All share an unusual, recessed construction and typically bear an etched family crest on the front. The cabassets a...","PeriodicalId":40914,"journal":{"name":"Arms & Armour","volume":"82 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139422226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arms & ArmourPub Date : 2024-01-09DOI: 10.1080/17416124.2024.2294643
N. R. Jenzen-Jones
{"title":"Smoke & steel: Weapons concealed as tobacco pipes & smokers’ accessories in early modern Japan","authors":"N. R. Jenzen-Jones","doi":"10.1080/17416124.2024.2294643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17416124.2024.2294643","url":null,"abstract":"Tobacco quickly found favour in Japan after its introduction in the late sixteenth century, leading to the development of the kiseru—a distinctive Japanese tobacco pipe. Building upon a long-standi...","PeriodicalId":40914,"journal":{"name":"Arms & Armour","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139412412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}