Pub Date : 2024-08-19DOI: 10.1080/17416124.2024.2386499
Peter G. Smithurst
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...
火炮设计师们一直在寻找改进火炮外部和内部弹道特性的方法。
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Pub Date : 2024-08-17DOI: 10.1080/17416124.2024.2391608
Cornelius Berthold, Ingo Petri
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 ...
皇家军械库 MS I.33 是已知最古老的欧洲格斗书,其插图有时看起来很奇怪,令学者和剑术爱好者感到困惑。本文认为,...
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Pub Date : 2024-08-17DOI: 10.1080/17416124.2024.2386504
Arthur G. Credland
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...
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Pub Date : 2024-05-09DOI: 10.1080/17416124.2024.2347780
N. R. Jenzen-Jones, Vernon Easley
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...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-07DOI: 10.1080/17416124.2024.2316967
Stephen Wren
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...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-07DOI: 10.1080/17416124.2024.2316976
Iason-Eleftherios Tzouriadis
Published in Arms & Armour (Ahead of Print, 2024)
发表于《武器与装甲》(2024 年,提前出版)
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Pub Date : 2024-02-27DOI: 10.1080/17416124.2024.2316985
Chunyu Li, Fang Chen
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...
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Pub Date : 2024-02-26DOI: 10.1080/17416124.2024.2308447
Oliver H. Creighton, Alan K. Outram, Eleanor Wilkinson-Keys
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 ...
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Pub Date : 2024-01-11DOI: 10.1080/17416124.2023.2296817
David R. Bellwood, Orpha Bellwood, Hannah R. Bellwood, Oliver R. Bellwood
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...
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Pub Date : 2024-01-09DOI: 10.1080/17416124.2024.2294643
N. R. Jenzen-Jones
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...
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