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A carregar... The medieval archer (edição 1985)por Jim Bradbury
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This is a semi-popular history of medieval archery, primarily military archery, primarily in England. Since there are lot a lot of other specialist studies on the subject, it is useful. Chapters are the archer and his weapons, archery at Hastings, from Hastings to Lincoln on foot, Robin Hood, the advent of the longbow, the triumph of the long bow, Agincourt, the last years of the military archer, and the archer in society. Aside from the discussion of Robin Hood, the main emphasis is on the famous battles on by English longbowmen. Bradbury's book examines the use of the bow in the Middle Ages. He does not confine himself to examining the romantic longbow of Robin Hood and Agincourt fame. However, in his study of the longbow he does question the Burne interpretation of how longbowmen were deployed in English armies. This is an important, ground-breaking book. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
It is a delight to read a book which recognises the importance of warfare in medieval times...also...discusses the changing role of the archer in medieval society. SIR STEVEN RUNCIMAN This book traces the history of the archer in the medieval period, from the Norman Conquest to the Wars of the Roses. From a close study of early evidence, the author shows that the archer's role before the time of Edward I was an important but rarely documented one, and that his new prominence in the fourteenth century was the result of changes in development of military tactics rather than the introduction of the famous "longbow". A second thread of the book examines the archer's role in society, with particular reference to that most famous of all archers, Robin Hood. The final chapters look at the archer in the early fifteenth century and then chronicle the rise of the handgun as the major infantry weapon at the bow's expense. JIM BRADBURY writes and lectures on battles and warfare in England and France in the Middle Ages. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Bradbury has two main theses he's pushing: that there was nothing particularly new about the English longbow or longbowman in the Hundred Years' War era, rather it was a natural and gradual evolution of the technology and tactics of the preceeding centuries; and that, contra the consensus when he was writing, longbowmen were not deployed in triangular herces along the battleline, but normally massed on the flanks.