The Sword (EPDF) von Lisa Deutscher

A multidisciplinary overview of current research into the enduringly fascinating martial artefact which is the sword.

Foreword
Preface
"What is the Riddle of Steel?": Problems of Classification and Terminology in the Study of Late Medieval Swords - Iason-Eleftherios Tzouriadis
Challenging Typologies: Swords in the Utrecht Psalter - Stefan Maeder
"...schirmen mit Federklingen": Towards a Terminology of Fencing Swords (1400-1600) - Daniel Jaquet
Phosphoric Iron and Welded Patterns: The Reconstruction of an Early Medieval Sword from Beckum - Ulrich Lehmann
Phosphoric Iron and Welded Patterns: The Reconstruction of an Early Medieval Sword from Beckum - Stefan Roth
Phosphoric Iron and Welded Patterns: The Reconstruction of an Early Medieval Sword from Beckum - Claus Lipka
Material and Properties of VLFBERHT Swords - Ingo Petri
A Sword from the Rhine: Restoration, Examination and Classification of a Chance Find - Holger Becker
The Highest Art of Smithery: Research on a Tyrolean Sword - Florian Messner and Ulrike Töchterle
The Battle for Glory: Form and Function of Early Nordic Bronze Age Swords - Jan-Heinrich Bunnefeld
The Iron Sword from the "Warrior's Grave" in Lanuvium - Fabrizio Savi
The Swords of the Italic Kings - Vincenzo D'Ercole
The Three Treasures in One Blade: Thoughts on a Rare Form of the Japanese Sword - Michael Mattner
".j. veel feble fauchon dil anxien temps." The Selection of the Falchion as Symbol of Tenure: Form, Function and Symbolism - Robert W. Jones
The Way of the Northmen: The Development of the Norman Sword from Duke Rollo in Normandy to Emperor Frederick II in Sicily from the Tenth to the Thirteenth Century - Nicole Mölk
Researching Bronze Age Swordsmanship: Experiments and Wear Analysis - Raphael Hermann and Andrea Dolfini and Rachel J. Crellin and Marion Uckelmann
Egenolff's Fight Book: Form and Thought, Then and Now - Matthias Johannes Bauer
A Sword for a System: The Pattern 1796 Light Cavalry Sword - Henry Yallop
Bibliography
Index