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Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe: From the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the End of the Thirteenth CenturyHewitt, John

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Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe: From the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the End of the Thirteenth Century

Name: Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe: From the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the End of the Thirteenth Century
Author: Hewitt, John

Hewitt, John

Armor; Weapons

Stanford Bridge, battle of, 20.

  Statute-of-Arms of William of Scotland, 50;
    of Henry II. in 1181, 97;
    of Frejus in 1233, 230, 241;
    of Henry III. in 1252, 210;
    of Winchester in 1285, 199, 210;
    of Edward I. in 1298, 344.

  Steallera, 11.

  Steel, hardening of in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, 163.

  Stone-hammer, 57, 58.

  Stone Period, 1.

  Stones used as weapons, 162.

  Stratagems, 116, 225.

  Studded armour, 134, 243, 255;
    of several kinds, 256.

  Sudis, 155.

  Surcoat, military, Pt. ii. 111, 126, Pt. iii. 271;
    its use, 271;
    short and long worn throughout the thirteenth century, 272;
    armoried, 272;
    its purpose, 273;
    powdered with escutcheons, 273;
    sleeved, 274;
    of Sindon silk, 369;
    of Carda, 369.

  Swords, Pt. i. 31, Pt. ii. 151, Pt. iii. 307;
    rich, 37, 309;
    of Charlemagne, 38;
    inscribed, 39;
    inlaid, 40;
    named, 40, 152;
    poisoned, 40;
    bent, found in graves, 42;
    of William the Conqueror, 152;
    manner of furbishing, 153;
    Hungarian, 163;
    worn at the right side, 311;
    of King Henry III., 311;
    German and French in the thirteenth century, 311;
    curved sabre, 314;
    stabbing, 314;
    of Cologne, 316;
    sword and buckler fight, 316;
    sword carved on knightly tomb, 317, 318;
    made of whalebone, 368, 370.

  Swords figured: _frontispiece_, Pt. i. 32, 33, 60, 67, Pt. ii. 130,
       132, 135, 136, 140, 144, 151, 170, Pt. iii. 192, 199, 228, 230,
       237, 238, 243, 247, 254, 257, 261, 268, 275, 283, 285, 287, 296,
       299, 303, 313, 339, 346.

  Sword-belts, 44, 152, 309.

  ----- cross-piece, 34, 151, 308.

  ----- handle, 35, 308.

  ----- sheath, 42, 309;
    worn beneath hauberk, 130.


  Tacitus, 7, 11, 16, 88.

  Tactics, Pt. i. 16, Pt. ii. 108, 114, Pt. iii. 222.

  Taper-axe, 45, 47.

  Tartars, 172.

  Tela nodosa, 106.

  Tents, 362.

  Tenures by various military services: at Riddesdale, Northumberland,
       152;
    at Faintree, Salop, 200;
    at Chetton, Salop, 201;
    by Castle-guard, at Portsmouth, 239;
    at Sockburn, Durham, 313;
    at Plumpton, Warwickshire, 321;
    at Baynard's Castle, London, 334.

  Terebra, 89.

  Testaræ, 348.

  Testudo, 88.

  Time of military service, 9, 96.

  Tournament, Pt. ii. 182, Pt. iii. 362;
    near St. Edmundsbury, 183;
    restricted to five localities in England, 184;
    in France under Philippe Auguste, 184;
    armour not different from that worn in battle, 185;
    writers on the subject, 185 _note_;
    forbidden, 211, 364;
    tumultuous at Rochester in 1251, 363;
    of Châlons in 1274, 363;
    Statute, _circa_ 1295, 366;
    of Windsor Park, 366, 368.

  Tourney, 182.

  Tours, for bending cross-bows, 353.

  Towers, Moveable, employed in sieges, Pt. i. 89, Pt. ii. 173, 174,
       Pt. iii. 354, 361.

  Trébuchet, four kinds of in the thirteenth century, 349;
    named, 351;
    reproduced at Vincennes in 1850, 351;
    projectiles of, 351.

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