observations indicated that the sword was made in Medieval European tradition Mediaeval Swords from Southeastern Europe: Material from 12th to 15th Century.
this detail of a 12th century sword. A blunt sword would quickly lose its effectiveness in combat. © Burfield Collection – Photo by Allison Mort. Page 5.
A European origin and an approximate date in the twelfth–thirteenth centuries CE are proposed. The study also discusses the role of swords in Medieval European
knights in Europe in the 11th century and later. Wallace Collection (Inv. A457) Until the twelfth century swords tended to be used primarily as cut- ting ...
In his valuable discussion of forty-one swordblades of Rhenish origin dated from the 6th-12th centuries A. D. Anteins (3) gives analyses of some of them. Nine (
twelfth century (for example a late eleventh-/early twelfth-century sword from Christ Church Place
There are many texts and pictures depicting effective arming sword combat without the benefit of a shield. According to Medieval texts in the absence of a
The sword may be of European origin; however this type of sword was also near the handle is also found on 10th – 12th century AD Kirghiz swords (Nicolle.
for instance in the 12th century when it reappeared in Europe it was common in South Europe
Rome but like medieval Christendom. Even fellow Christians could be racialized: Gerald of Wales justified England's invasion of. Ireland in the twelfth century
The Old Sword and the Sea: A Medieval European Sword Off the