The Sword and the Crucible - A History of the Metallurgy of European Swords Up to the 16th Century

The sword was the most important of weapons, but relatively little has been written about its metallurgy. The results of the microscopic examination of over a hundred swords are used to tell the story of the making of swords from the first examples through the Middle Ages to the 16th century.

Info autore

Alan R.Williams, PhD (1974) in History of Science, University of Manchester, now works as an Archaeometallurgist in the Wallace Collection, London. He has published extensively on the metallurgy of swords and armour and is the author of The Knight and the Blast Furnace (2003)

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Alan Williams
• Editore: Brill
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 03.05.2012
• EAN: 9789004227835
• ISBN: 978-90-04-22783-5
• Pagine: 300
• Dimensioni: 159 mm x 241 mm x 22 mm
• Peso: 576 g
• Serie: History of Warfare
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Tecnica > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia